Academic Language ELA 7-8 th

Purpose is to tell a story

• Fiction/ Narrative

• Expository

• Poetry

• Persuasive

Purpose is to express feelings

• expository

• poetry

• drama

• Fiction/ narrative

Purpose is to inform

• fiction/ narrative

• poetry

• persuasive

• expository

purpose is to inform to convince

• poetry

• drama

• persuasive

• fiction/ narrative

Theme

• message of a story

• main idea of a text

• feelings of the author

• the directions for the characters

Conflict

• how the problem was fixed

• the details that support the main idea

• the problem or situation in which the main character encounters

• the problem in the environment

Resolution

• at the end of the story how the main character resolves their conflict

• details in the text

• main idea of the story

• character traits

plot

• supporting details of the text

• series of events found in a story

• main character

• arguments that the author presents

Main idea/ controlling idea

• the message of the story

• support details

• the central idea which the whole text is about

• theme of the story

Supporting details

• they support the main idea/ controlling idea of the text

• events in the story

• the plot

• main idea