ELA Academic Vocabulary Group 3

Information that supports the main idea in a piece of writing

• main Idea

• dialogue

• key details

• theme

The most important idea in a piece of writing

• theme

• opinion

• conflict

• main idea

The central message or lesson the author wants to share

• theme

• transitions

• plot

• conclusion

Tells a story about real or fictional events

• opinion

• narrative writing

• plot

• conclusion

An educated guess that a reader makes based on evidence in the text

• dialogue

• contrast

• inference

• narrator

A conversation between characters, with their speech in quotation marks

• compare

• opinion

• narrator

• dialogue

Words and phrases that connect ideas to make writing flow smoothly

• theme

• conclusions

• transitions

• plot

The person or character who tells the story

• contrast

• narrator

• opinion

• conflict

A belief based on feelings that can't be proven true

• opinion

• plot

• compare

• key details

A problem characters have in a story

• contrast

• compare

• conflict

• plot