Vocabulary for 5th grade

Compares to unlike things using a word or phrase

• metaphor
• simile
• onomatopoeia
• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.3.5A

CCSS.RL.3.4

a word or phrase that has a different meaning than what is being said

• metaphor
• simile
• onomatopoeia
• idiom

Tags

CCSS.L.5.5A

CCSS.L.5.5B

CCSS.RL.5.4

a word or phrase that has a different meaning than what is being said

• metaphor
• simile
• onomatopoeia
• idiom

Problem in the story

• conflict
• contrast
• solution
• inference

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.2

How you feel about something

• fact
• author's purpose
• opinion
• effect

Tags

CCSS.SL.5.4

CCSS.W.5.1A

CCSS.W.5.1C

CCSS.W.5.1D

use what you already know and evidence from the text to figure something out

• text evidence
• summary
• passage
• inference

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.W.5.9A

how a person is on the inside 

• character
• character trait
• opinion
• theme

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

the message or lesson the author wants you to learn 

• theme
• main idea
• summary
• author's purpose

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.2

the reason an author writes a story or text 

• theme
• main idea
• summary
• author's purpose

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.2

person who wrote the words in the book

• character
• illustrator
• setting
• author

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RL.3.1