ELA Key Vocabulary Terms

ELA Key Vocabulary Terms

MAIN IDEA

What a paragraph or story is mostly about

CENTRAL IDEA

The most important idea or claim that a text communicates

DETAILS

Small pieces of information, facts, and evidence in a text to support the main idea

SUMMARIZE

A statement including the main ideas of each paragraph

FICTION

Literature that describes imaginary events and people

NONFICTION

Literature based on facts, real events, and real people.

BIOGRAPHY

A story about a real life person

SEQUENCE

The order of events in a story

AUTHOR'S PURPOSE

The reason for writing; to entertain, to persuade, or to inform a reader.

IDIOM

A phrase that cannot be literally explained by the words.