Test Prep Vocabulary

What the author is trying to tell the reader; what the text is mostly about.

• Main Idea

• Theme

• Supporting Details

• Summarizing

facts or details that support the main idea

• Main Idea

• Theme

• Supporting Details

• Summarizing

life lesson that the author wants the reader to learn; moral of the story

• Main Idea

• Theme

• Supporting Details

• Summarizing

words and phrases that help the reader determine the meaning of unknown words

• Main Idea

• Supporting Details

• Summarizing

• Context Clues

short statement including the most important details of the story; written in your own words

• Main Idea

• Theme

• Supporting Details

• Summarizing

I am telling the story

• 1st Person

  Point of View

• 2nd Person

  Point of View

• 3rd Person

  Point of View

unknown narrator is telling the story

• 1st Person

  Point of View

• 2nd Person

  Point of View

• 3rd Person

  Point of View

description of an event by a person who was there and experienced the event

• Firsthand Account

• Secondhand Account

• 3rd Person

  Point of View

• 4th Person

  Point of View

description of an event by a person who was NOT present at the event when it happened

• Firsthand Account

• Secondhand Account

• 1st Person

  Point of View

• 4th Person

  Point of View

two passages about the same topic; both are used to answer a question

• Point of View

• Account

• Paired Text

• Main Idea