ELA Key Vocabulary Terms

What a paragraph or story is mostly about

The most important idea or claim that a text communicates

Small pieces of information, facts, and evidence in a text to support the main idea

A statement including the main ideas of each paragraph

Literature that describes imaginary events and people

Literature based on facts, real events, and real people.

A story about a real life person

The order of events in a story

The reason for writing; to entertain, to persuade, or to inform a reader.

A phrase that cannot be literally explained by the words.