ELA LEAP Prep Vocabulary

Information from a text that we use to support our beliefs, opinions, main points, and arguments

• Text Evidence

• Opinion

• Point of View

Telling the important events or ideas in a story in your own words

• Key Details

• Central Message

• Summarize

A retelling of an event or series of events

• Lesson

• Recount

• Moral

To tell again or in another way

• Text Evidence

• Key Detail

• Retell

The big idea of a story or the lesson the author wants you to learn

• Central Message

• Summarize

• Main Idea

A lesson to be learned in the story

• Key Detail

• Moral

• Motivation

Tells important information about the story or main topic

• Key Details

• Lesson

• Traits

A story that teaches a moral lesson often in which animals speak and act like humans

• Drama

• Fable

• Myth

A story passed down in spoken words; usually the author is unknown and there are often many versions of the tale

• Drama

• Fable

• Folktale

The people, animals, or things in a story that can think, feel, and act.

• Characters

• Setting

• Plot