Sol Verbs Grade 5

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Almanac

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A reference book that comes out once a year and offers facts and statistics about current events and trends

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Antonym

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A word that means the opposite of another word, such as: tight/loose, go/stop

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Atlas

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A book that contains maps and geographical information about the world

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Autobiography

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A passage in which the author writes about his or her own life

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Biography

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A passage written about the life of a person who is usually famous

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Boldface (boldprint)

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A name for text that appears bold, or darker than other text

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Captions

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text organizers that appear under pictures and tell you what to pay attention to

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Cause

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why something happens

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Caus-and-Effect charts

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Graphic organizers to help you keep track of cause-and-effect relationships

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Cause-and-Effect Relationships

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A structural pattern that shows what events caused or were caused by effects

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Characters

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The people or animals that you read about in stories

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Chronological Order

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The order in which events happen

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Compare

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To find similarities between two or more things

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Conclusion

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A decision about why things happen the way they did based on details

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Conflict

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A struggle between characters or forces in a story

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Contemporary Fiction

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Stories that are set in the present

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Context Clues

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Words or phrases near an unfamilar word that help you figure out the new word's meaning

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Contrast

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To find differences between two or more things

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Diagrams

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plans, sketches, drawings, or outlines designed to help the reader understand difficult information

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Dictionary

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A reference book listing words in alphabetical order with their pronunciations and all of their definitions

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Dialogue

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A conversation between two or more people, such as that between characters in a drama or narrative

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Effect

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the result of a cause

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Encyclopedia

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A reference book of many volumes that contain articles about different subjects. The volumes are arranged alphabetically

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Evidence

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Something that is helpful in forming a conclusion or judgment

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Fable

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A short tale that teaches a lesson. The characters in fables are usually animals who act and talk like people. Also called a folk tale

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Facts

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Things that actually happened or are really true

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Fiction

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Made up stories and poems

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Figurative Language

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Language used in writing to create imagery. Figurative language often appeals to the senses

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Folklore

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Stories that explain something about nature or humans. These stories may have animals or mythical gods as characters.

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Free Verse

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Poetry that does not rhyme or follow a pattern

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Glossary

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A listing of vocabulary words within a book. A glossary is in alphabetical ordr and provides a brief definition of key words from the book it is in

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Graphs

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Visual organizers that show information at a glance

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Graphic Features

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Text organizers that show information visually

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Graphic Organizers

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Visual tools to help you understand what you read

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Graphics

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Text organizers that are a good way of presenting information about numbers

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Heading

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Text organizer that appears at the beginning of a passage that usually reveals the passage's main idea

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Historical Fiction

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Stories that are set in the past and based on true events

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Homonyms

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Words that sound the same, but have different meanings

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Identifying Sources

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To fugure out where to find more passages like the passages alread read

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Illustrations

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Pictures that accompany a story to help the reader visualize a scene

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Index

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A listing of topics that are covered in a book. The topics are listed in alphabetical order

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Italics

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A name for text that appears slanted to the right

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Main Idea

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The most inportant idea that an author makes in a passage

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Maps

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Describe the location of someplace in reference to something else

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Meter

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The rhythm that words make as you read a poem

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Milestone

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An event marking a signficant new development or stage in aperson's life

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Mysteries

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Stories that are about puzzling crimes to be solved

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Narrator

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The person telling the story, like a speaker

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Nonfiction

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Teaches you facts and gives you information about real-life people, events, and places

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Opinions

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Beliefs that are based on individual's judgements

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Outines

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Graphic organizers to help you organize information and rememeber what you read

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Patterned Poems

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Poetry in which the poet may repeat certain phrases to give the poem a nice rhythm

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Plot

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What happens in a story

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Plot Development

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The individual events that make up a story

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Prediction

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A guess about what will happen based on facts

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Prefixes

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Groups of letters or short words added to the beginning of a word to change its meaning

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Reference Materials

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Books like dictionaries and atlases, that give you information about a subject

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Resolution

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The event or manner in which a conflict ends

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Rhymed Poems

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Poetry in which the last word or differnt lines rhyme with each other

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Root Words

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The base words that you can change by adding prefixes or suffixes

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Scanning

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Reading quickly to look for specific words or phrases

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Science Fiction

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Stories that have elements of fantasy based in science

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Setting

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The time and place in which a story occurs

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Skimming

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Reading quickly to get a general idea of a passage's content

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Sources

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Materials, like books and magazines, that provide the information in reports

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Stanza

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A group of words within a poem

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Structural Patterns

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How authors organize the information they present in a passage

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Subheadings

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Heading within a passage that break the paragraphs up into groups

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Suffixes

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Groups of letters or short words added to the end of a word to change its meaning

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Summarize

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To sum up the most important ideas in the passage

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Supporting Ideas

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Pieces of information that support your central idea

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Survey

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A gathering of a sample of data or opinions considered to be representative of a whole

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Syllable

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A unit of spoken language consisting of a single uninterrupted sound formed by a bowel, dipthing, or syllabic cnosonant alone, or by any of these sounds preceded, followed, or surrounded by one or more consonants

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Table of Contents

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A table or listof topics in a book, showing their order and the place where they may be found

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Text Organizers

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Features that authors use to make it easier to understand what you are reading

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Thesaurus

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A reference book that provides a list of synonyms and antonyms for a given word

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Timelines

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Graphic organizers to help yo keep track of teh order in which wvents take place

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Type Styles

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Text organizers such as italics and boldfaced letters that can make yo pay attention to unfamiliar or important words

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Venn Diagrams

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Graphic organizers that help you compare and contrast two things