6th Grade ELA Key Terms

This is the most important point an author is trying to make about a topic.

• Nonfiction Central Idea

• Interjection

• Conjunction

• preposition

These are facts, examples, reasons, and other pieces of information that are meant to explain and expand on the central idea.

• Supporting Details

• Nonfiction Central Idea

• Interjection

• conjunction

Look at the title, repeated words, pictures, first and last sentence.

• Strategies to Identify the Central Idea

• Supporting Details

• Nonfiction Central Idea

• interjection

This is a brief restatement of the article's important details and central ideas in your own words.

• Nonfiction Summary
• Strategies to Identify the Central Idea
• Supporting Details
• Nonfiction Central Idea

A summary must be this...meaning it does not include any opinions or personal beliefs.

• Objective
• Nonfiction Summary
• Strategies to Identify the Central Idea
• Supporting Details

This is when you examine somethings parts to see how they work together.

• Analyze
• Objective
• Nonfiction Summary
• Strategies to Identify the Central Idea

This is a reasonable guess, which is based on both evidence and prior knowledge of a topic.

• Inference
• Analyze
• Objective
• Nonfiction Summary

Evidence + Schema = Inference

• What I Read + What I know = What I Infer
• Inference
• Analyze
• Objective

This is when the text states something directly. It is clearly stated.

• Explicitly
• What I Read + What I know = What I Infer
• Inference
• Analyze

This is a brief story about an interesting, funny, or strange event told to entertain or make a point.

• Anecdote
• Explicitly
• What I Read + What I know = What I Infer
• Inference