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5th Grade ELA Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Author's claim | the main point the author is trying to make in a text; usually supported with reasons and evidence |
| Cause | What makes something happen. Why something happens. |
| Compare and Contrast | How things are alike and different |
| Conflict | The problem |
| Context Clues | When you use the words or sentences around a word to figure out the meaning of a word |
| contribute | to add to or help make something happen |
| demonstrates | shows |
| Details | sentences that support a main idea by giving more specific information |
| Effect | What happens because of something. The result. |
| emphasizes | gives special importance or attention to something |
| Event | What happens in a text |
| Fiction | A story that is made up or not true |
| Figurative Language | words and phrases that have a different meaning from what the words actually say, including similes, metaphors and idioms. |
| Graphic organizer | A chart or story map used to help organize information. Can use for sequencing events, causes and effects, comparing and contrasting, and so on. |
| Heading | The title of a section or chapter. |
| Impact | the effect or result |
| Imply/implies | to not directly state; to suggest |
| Infer/inference | Using clues from the text to figure out what is happening or what the author means when it's not directly stated. |
| Main Idea | What the text/section/paragraph is mostly about. The big ideas. |
| Metaphor | When you compare something to something else WITHOUT using the words "like" or "as" and usually say that something is something else |
| Motivation | Why a character does something. |
| Narrator | the person or character TELLING the story. May be a character in the story or someone not a part of the story. |
| Non-Fiction/Informational | A selection that is true or gives factual information |
| Persuade | To try to convince someone to do or believe something |
| Plot | The events of a story |
| Point of View | A character or person's thoughts, beliefs, and opinions about a topic or what is happening |
| portrayed | showed, demonstrated |
| Purpose | WHY the author wrote the text or included something in the text |
| Relationship | How ideas, events, or people go together in a text. Relationships could be cause/effect, problem/solution, sequential, compare/contrast, etc. |
| Sequence/Chronological | The order of events |
| Setting | Where and when the story takes place |
| Significance/significant | Importance/important |
| Simile | When you use the words "like" or "as" to compare two things |
| Solution | When the problem in the story or text is solved |
| Statement | sentence |
| Summary/Summarize | A retelling of the MOST important ideas/main events of the text. |
| Supports | backs up/gives evidence for |
| Theme | The message, lesson or moral of the text that the author wanted you to learn. Can be stated as a lesson or just one word, such as determination. |
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