5th Grade Studies Weekly Unit 1 Week 3 Vocabulary

What is close reading?

• reading with your eyes closed

• reading with your book close to your eyes

• thinking about what you are reading

• when you finish reading

Context

• identifies the things that influence what is in the source and how it is presented

• does not identify the things that influence what is in the source

• facts that come from articles or newspapers

• the page at the beginning of a text

corroboration

• to not find evidence from multiple sources

• to organize evidence in a way to understand better

• finding evidence from multiple sources to support your claim.

• to create an article that has evidence in it.

credible

• to have money loaned to you from a bank

• untrusted information

• information that is in all magazines and text books

• information and sources that can be trusted

evaluate

• to come up with facts

• to go up in the air like an elevator

• determine which information is most useful to you

• to raise up

evidence

• information gathered from sources to answer inquiry questions

• facts that are made up to answer questions

• proof you have read the article

• things you underline in a story because it sounds importan.

primary sources

• sources that are first

• secondhand accounts of events, people and places

• firsthand accounts of events, people, and places

• sources that are not first

secondary sources

• sources described by someone who did not witness the event

• sources that provide false information about what happened

• sources described by someone who witnessed an event

• sources that are all secret

sequence

• the order of ideas in the text

• pretty sparkles on a shirt

• how things go

• I don't even like apples

thesis

• a statement that doesn't really tell you much about what you are reading

• a compound word using the words the and is

• a story that is true

• a statement that describes your argument and what you are trying to prove