ELA Terms (OG)

Define summary?

• Shorter version of a text that includes important details.

• Decisions made after looking at text clues and my own background knowledge.

• What the text is mostly about.

• The life lesson the author is trying to teach.

What is theme?

• A shorter version of the story.

• The life lesson the author is trying to teach or moral of the story.

• Somebody

  Wanted

  But

  So

  Then

• The narrator's perspective.

Define point of view.

• The author's reason for writing.

• Restate

  Answer

  Cite

  Explain

• The person telling the story and from where.

• It is what the text is mostly about.

What is author's purpose?

• It is what the text is mostly about.

• Events that happen in a story.

• Who?

  What?

  Where?

  When?

  Why?

  How?

• The author's reason for writing:

  persuade, inform, or entertain.

Define main idea.

• It proves my answers by giving examples from the text. (citing)

• It is what the text is mostly about.

• Decisions made after looking at the text clues and my own background knowledge.

• The life lesson the author is trying to teach; the moral of the story.

What is an inference?

• Restate

  Answer

  Cite

  Explain

• A shorter version of the text that includes important details.

• The narrator's perspective.

• A decision made after looking at text clues and my own background knowledge.

What is the purpose of text evidence?

• It proves my answers by giving examples from the text. (citing)

• Restate

  Answer

  Cite

  Explain

• Events that happen in a story.

• Decisions made after looking at the text clues and my own background knowledge.

Plot

• The life lesson the author is trying to teach.

• Rising action

• Events that happen in a story.

• Time and place of the story.

A method for answering short answer questions is called R.A.C.E.

What do those letters stand for?

• Restate

  Answer

  Conclude

  Evidence

• Restate

  Answer

  Cite

  Explain

• Restate

  Answer

  Cite

  Evidence

• Restate

  Analyze

  Cite

  Evidence

A method for summarizing a non-fictional text is by answering:

• Who?

  What?

  Where?

  When?

  Why?

  How?

• Describe?

  Review?

  Include?

• Title?

  Abstract?

  Introduction?

  Method?

  Results?

  Discussion?

• Parentheses

  Exponents

  Multiplication

  Division

  Addition

  Subtraction