Key Ideas and Details

A logical conclusion reached based on textual evidence and prior knowledge.

• topic

• summary

• inference

• central idea

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.W.8.9A

Figure out the author’s main point or message about a topic

• topic

• inference

• summarizing

• central idea

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RI.8.6

CCSS.RL.8.2

Answers the question, “Who or what is the paragraph (or article) about?”

• topic

• central idea

• summarizing

• inference

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

Find important details that the author uses to develop the central idea and communicate them in your own words

• topic

• summarizing

• central idea

• supporting details

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.W.8.2B

Finding what details in the text have in common

• objectively summarizing

• making connections

• making inferences

• providing supporting details

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RI.8.3

Details consists of specific information such as

examples, explanations, descriptions, proof, and

statistics.

• supporting details

• topic

• summarizing

• central idea

Tags

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.W.8.2B