FIFTH GRADE COMMON VOCABULARY
Social Studies
Civil War African Slave trade Emancipation freedom Union Army vs. Confederate tolerance amendment immigration vs. migration discrimination B.C. A.D. natural resource supply/demand population continent economy latitude and longitude scale American Revolution Bill of Rights Citizenship U.S. Constitution Declaration of Independence Branches of Government majority vs. minority taxes representation Continental Congress education system colonization Myan Calendar Native American Culture Group |
Mathematics
Whole Number Place Value Decimal Pattern Estimation unit of measure graph: pie, bar, line data fraction equation geometric figure perimeter area ratio, proportion volume circumference percent probability interger coordinate power of 10 denominator, numerator sum, difference product, quotient numerical pattern perpendicular parallel proof estimation rounding associative cumulative equivalent faces of a shape least common multiple greatest common factor prime number |
Reading
fiction non-fiction tall tale autobiography, biography main idea predicting summarizing infer text organization author title subtitle comprehension cause vs. effect compare contrast chronology informational entertaining fluency quotation theme character settings events metaphore, simile chapter, scene, stanza story drama poem voice meaning tone relationships, interactions problem, solution |
English
opinion fact point-of-view informative, expository explanatory point-of-view descriptive detail event sequence purpose audience planning revising, rewriting editing purpose audience summarize paraphrase source primary secondary evidence example reflection research speaker-speech multimedia noun,verb,pronoun, object, homonym, homophone memoir pursuasive analogy grammar figurative language transistion word double negative guide words paragraph possessive noun quotation marks contraction symbolism syllabication first person third person word choice topic sentence closing sentence chronological order cause and effect personification body of text climax of story narration closing, salutation |
Science
properties chemical, physical change matter forms of energy conservation of energy atom molecule mass vs. weight periodic table ecosystem respiration digestive system disease heart rate immune system circulatory system solar system Earth's Systems Layers of the Earth Moving Plates Plate techtonics weathering crystal formation planet, Galileo sun, galaxy, Milkyway moon, eclipse, asteroid star, gravitaional force |