ELA Academic Vocabulary Group 3

Information that supports the main idea in a piece of writing

• main Idea

• dialogue

• key details

• theme

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

The most important idea in a piece of writing

• theme

• opinion

• conflict

• main idea

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

The central message or lesson the author wants to share

• theme

• transitions

• plot

• conclusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

Tells a story about real or fictional events

• opinion

• narrative writing

• plot

• conclusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.10

CCSS.RL.3.6

CCSS.RL.4.10

CCSS.RL.4.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

An educated guess that a reader makes based on evidence in the text

• dialogue

• contrast

• inference

• narrator

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

A conversation between characters, with their speech in quotation marks

• compare

• opinion

• narrator

• dialogue

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Words and phrases that connect ideas to make writing flow smoothly

• theme

• conclusions

• transitions

• plot

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

The person or character who tells the story

• contrast

• narrator

• opinion

• conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

A belief based on feelings that can't be proven true

• opinion

• plot

• compare

• key details

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

A problem characters have in a story

• contrast

• compare

• conflict

• plot

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5