Key Terms

Topic

Main Idea

Theme​

What is a topic?

an idea ​or concept that is explored in the text

a text can have more than one topic

​topics can be expressed in one or two words (e.g. love, happiness, death)

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Subject | Subject

Some text here about the topic of discussion

What are main ideas in texts?

the way in which the author develops topics in a text

​may be explained in a sentence or two

​may be directly stated in the text or may have to be inferred

Subject | Subject

Some text here about the topic of discussion