Refers to a category in which a work of literature is classified Ex: Narrative, Drama, Poetry, Informational, Argumentative

To make a logical guess based in your knowledge and clues from the text Prior Knowledge + Clues = Inference

Take individual pieces of information and combine them in order to gain better understanding of a subject

The reason why the author wrote the text. To inform, to persuade, to entertain or to explain

To make something clear or easy to understand by describing and giving more information about it

To quote a passage, book, or author as evidence for, or justification of, an argument or statement.

To work something out from evidence or reasoning, or from ideas known to be true rather than from explicit statements

A group of lines that form a poem

Comparing two unlike things without using like or as You're a firework

Compare two unlike things using like or as Her hand is as cold as ice

A regular pattern of rhyming words in a poem AB AB AB AA BB CC

Text that is written in a style that can cause the reader's emotion to become more highly felt

Muscial quality created by the alternation of stressed and unstressed syllables

Speaking something that is not human as if it haf human abilities and human reactions

one or more lines repeated in each stanza in a poem

estimate or say that a specified thing will happen in the future or will be a consequence of something

Explain and describe the meaning and exact limits of something

To give a brief statement of the main facts of something

Tell a story again or differently

Perceive or point out a difference

To arrange a group of people or things in sets or categories according to shared qualities or characteristics

Contrive, plan, or elaborate; invent from existing principles or ideas

describe or portray something percisely

ascertain or establish exactly, typically as a result of research or calculation

information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem

The how the author writes the text

to examine (two or more objects, ideas, people etc.) in order to note similarities and differences

to compare in order to show unlikeliness or differences; note the opposite natures, purposes, etc.

To examine or assess something formally with the possibility or intention of instituting change if necessary

To understand the nature or meaning of something

Show something is reasonable, right or true, through the use of logic, reason, or evidence

Demonstrate the truth or existence of something by evidence or argument

establish or indicate who or what someone or something is

Main Idea, Key Idea, Central Idea, Controlling Idea

Most important idea about a topic that that writer is trying to show

Helps to support the central/key/controlling/main idea in an important way

The main idea or lesson the author is trying to get across to the reader

Express the same message in different words

Developing in complex and thorough detail

RLA Academic Vocabulary for Grade 5 Flashcards

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Define: Analyze

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to examine something by separating a while into smaller parts

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Define: Significant

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or meaningful

3.

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Define: Structure

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arrangement of parts

4.

FLASHCARD QUESTION

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Define: Context clue

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Words or phrases surrounding a word that provides hints about the words meanings

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Define: Evidence

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or support from the text

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Define: Role

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part played

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Define: Theory

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idea or explanation

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