Fain 5th Grade Vocabulary Week 1

Fluency:

• Applying knowledge of letter-sound relationships in order to sound out a word; in reading practice, the term is used primarily to refer to word identification rather than word comprehension

• The ability to read text at an appropriate rate and with accuracy, expression, and appropriate phrasing; not hurried reading

• Adding notes or comments to a text to mark significant features and/or personal commentary

• A word having more than one syllable

Annotating:

• The process of two or more people working together to create or achieve the same thing wherein each member speaks, is heard, and takes ownership of the resulting product or activity

• Adding notes or comments to a text to mark significant features and/or personal commentary

• The various methods of communicating information

• Drawings or photographs that help explain the text

Context:

• Words and phrases that create imagery by using the 5 senses

• To say that something is larger or greater than it really is; "to stretch the truth"

• A comparison or two unlike things without using like or as

• The words, sentences, or passages that precede or follow a specific word, sentence, or passage

Topic:

• A specific subject, idea, or issue that is the focus of a discussion, essay, article, or other work

• The turning point in the action of a story--the problem is solved

• Combining several pieces of information to make an inference

• A conversation between characters set off by quotation marks

Routine:

• Give a brief statement of the main points of (something)

• Language that cannot be taken literally since it was written to create a special effect or feeling

• A sequence of actions regularly followed

• A passage taken from a book, article, etc.

A sequence of actions regularly followed → Context

• True

• False

The ability to read text at an appropriate rate and with accuracy, expression, and appropriate phrasing; not hurried reading → Fluency

• False

• True

Adding notes or comments to a text to mark significant features and/or personal commentary → Annotating

• True

• False

A specific subject, idea, or issue that is the focus of a discussion, essay, article, or other work → Topic

• False

• True

The words, sentences, or passages that precede or follow a specific word, sentence, or passage → Fluency

• True

• False