ELA Topics

The real-world life lesson that a text teaches a reader.

• Setting

• Theme

• Metaphor

• Secondhand account

a conclusion that is made by a

reader using evidence from a

text combined with the reader’s

background knowledge

• Inference

• reasons

• cause and effect

• plot

the way that a conflict or

problem is solved in a story

• plot

• setting

• resolution

• simile

a retelling of the main events in a

text in a shorter version

• summary

• context clue

• plot

• problem and solution

the key events that happen

during the story; may include a

conflict to be overcome

• 1st person point of view

• conflict

• chronological order

• plot

the people or animals who are in

the story and are important to

the story

• resolution

• characters

• compare and contrast

• main idea

the location and time in which a

story takes place

• setting

• plot

• firsthand account

• reasons

the most important piece of

information that the author wants

the reader to understand

• context clue

• metaphor

• 3rd person point of view

• Main Idea

facts or details that support and elaborate on the main idea of a text

• supporting details

• plot

• secondhand account

• conflict

words and phrases in a text that help the reader determine the meanings of unknown words

• plot

• metaphor

• context clues

• plot