ELA Key Terms 2023

factual writing about real people, places, events, ideas, or things. 

• Fiction

• Nonfiction

• Realistic fiction

• Plot

 a make believe story that is meant to entertain readers, but

has elements that could not happen in real life.

• Nonfiction

• Theme

• Realistic fiction

• Fiction

a made up story that has events that could take

place in real life. The characters speak and act just like real people do.

The plot, events, and setting are all believable.

• Nonfiction

• Fiction

• Realistic fiction

• Characters

the events that make up the main part of a story. The events in

a plot rise to the conflict or climax (main action) and fall to a

conclusion or end with a resolution.

• Plot

• Setting

• Conflict

• Evidence

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

the time and place the action happens.

• story

• characters

• non-fiction

• setting

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

the person or animal the story is about.

• antonym

• characters

• persuade

• detail

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

a problem or difference in ideas, wishes, or needs.

• main idea

• antonym

• conflict

• realistic fiction

 a word that means the opposite.

• antonym

• cause

• effect

• inference

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.4

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.3.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

the main idea, topic, subject, lesson, or meaning of a story or poem. 

• plot

• setting

• theme

• conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

 (also central idea) a topic, or subject, on which the overall selection focuses; key words: mostly about, mainly about.

• theme

• noun

• subject

• main idea

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9