Main Idea Vocabulary Terms 3rd Grade

to retell the events or details of a text or story in order

• recount

• connection

• knowledge

• support

the words that make up the main part of a book, magazine, newspaper, Web site, etc: or other piece of writing

• determine

• text

• recount

• summarize

Tell in your own words what a passage is about including only the central idea and most important supporting details.

• connection

• details

• main idea

• summarize

relating what you read to something else you know

• support

• text

• recount

• connection

Back up with details

• text

• key details

• support

• determine

to figure out or show how you know something

• recount

• summarize

• determine

• knowledge

the most Important pieces of information in a story that support the main idea.

• key details

• knowledge

• connection

• recount

what a piece of writing is mainly about

• knowledge

• support

• main idea

• recount

pieces of information that support or tell more about the main idea

• recount

• knowledge

• determine

• details

facts, information, and skills a person learns through experience or education;

• text

• knowledge

• connection

• summarize