Key Ideas and Details Review

The most important idea in a piece of writing

• Explicit details

• Key details

• Main idea

• Implicit details

Understood though not plainly or directly expressed

• Implicit details

• Pacing

• Explicit details

• Key details

Text organization in which ideas and concepts are presented in the order in which they happen

• Pacing

• Trait

• Part to whole structure

• Sequential structure

A detail about a character’s physical appearance or personality

• Inference

• Adage

• Trait

• Proverb

Text organization in which facts and details lead to one main idea

• Sequential structure

• Inference

• Part to whole structure

• Narrator

What is the purpose for using transitional words?

• To create more work

• To become a successful writer

• To help your reader follow your ideas

• To create a disconnect

What should the third piece of your topic sentence do?

• Explain the central idea of the text. 

• Use a verb that communicates the purpose of the original text. 

• Tell the audience a short summary about what they're about to read. 

• Identify the text (author and source)

An objective summary should

• include quotes from the text.

• be brief, accurate, and objective.

• include small details from the text.

• include the reader's opinion of the text.

Which one of the following is NOT a part of a summary?

• using your own words

• summary being shorter than the text

• quotes words from the text

• including main ideas only

A good objective summary....

• Is a summary sentence of the text that covers the key details.

• Identifies the topic, has all the key words, and is a complete sentence.

• Focuses on the central idea of the text and only the details that support it. 

• Uses direct quotes from the text in order to let the audience know what it was about.