Informational Text
ELA Vocab
Words in Context
ELA Vocab
Informational Text
100

What the text is mostly teaching or explaining. 

What is main idea

100

The lesson or message in a story

What is a theme

100

a phrase that does not mean exactly what it says

What is an idiom

100

To figure out the best answer

What is determine

100

tell how things are alike and different

what is compare and contrast

200

A phrase that does not mean exactly what it says

What is an idiom

200
The most important parts told briefly

What is a summary

200

a comparison using like or as

What is a similie

200

use clues to figure something out

What it is to infer

200

a smart guess based on text clues

What is an inference

300

Important facts that support the main idea

What are key details

300

where and when a story takes place

what is a setting

300

How the author or speaker feels

what is the authors tone

300

retell briefly without extra details.

what is it summarize

300

how the text is organized

what is text structure

400

Proof from the passage

What is text evidence

400

A group of lines in a poem

What is a stanza

400

Words that mean more than their literal meaning

what is figurative language 

400

think deeply about how the text works

What is analyze

400

Tell about it using details

what is to describe

500

The reason the author wrote the text

What is the author's purpose
500

The main events in a story

what is a plot

500

Words around an unknown word that help explain it

What is context clues

500

Give proof from the text

what is support

500

judge using evidence

what is to evaluate

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