ELA Review

Using your background knowledge AND clues from the text to figure it out

• inference/infer

• recount/retell

• context clue

To tell in your own words

• recount, recall, retell

• inference/infer

• evidence

A clue that tell you what an unknown word means

• inference/infer

• context clue

• support

To picture something

• visualize

• support

• dialogue

To back up your answer with evidence

• context clue

• support

• evidence

Information from the text that proves your answer

• support

• evidence

• dialogue

When 2 or more people in a text are having a conversation with each other

• context clue

• visualize

• dialogue

What the text is mostly about

• main idea

• key detail

• summary

an important detail that supports the main idea

• main idea

• key detail

• summary

A short retelling of the text that includes only the main idea and key details

• main idea

• key detail

• summary