SCREADY Vocab 3

The bigger message of a text (life lesson)

• Central Idea
• Topic Sentence
• Theme
• Inference

The time and place where a story takes place

• Setting
• Descriptive
• Reasoning
• Point of View

A short retelling of key points in a text without the writer's opinion

• Thesis Statement
• Hook
• Objective Summary
• Central Idea

Something clearly stated in a text (you can point to it on the page)

• Inference
• Explicit Detail
• Textual Evidence
• Theme

A direct quote from a text that supports a point (Can also be an example or paraphrase)

• Inference
• Explicit Detail
• Textual Evidence
• Theme

Using background knowledge plus evidence from a text to make a logical assumption about something that's happening in a text

• Educated Guess
• Explicit Detail
• Textual Evidence
• Inference

The main idea; the most important idea a text is about

• Theme
• Central Idea
• Setting
• Point of View

The perspective a story is told from

• Point of View
• Perspective
• Setting
• Central Idea

A narrator tells a story that they did or saw; uses I and me

• First person
• Second person
• Third person
• Omniscient

A narrator who isn't part of the story tells the story; uses he, she, etc.

• First person
• Third person
• Limited
• Omniscient