ELA Fast

A conclusion drawn from text evidence and known facts.

• Tone

• Inference

• Theme

• Mood

 A written note, symbol, or mark close-readers add to a text to comment on or clarify information. 

• Annotation

• Inference

• Context Clue

• Central Idea

efers to the category of a text based on the author’s purpose for writing (to inform, persuade, or entertain). 

• Context

• Genre

• Figurative Language

• Onomatopoeia

The positive, negative, or neutral feeling communicated or suggested by a word.

• Inference

• Connotation

• Denotation

• Context Clues

The most important, main thoughts unifying a text. 

• Central Ideas

• Annotation

• Genre

• Theme

The situation within which something happens that can help explain it; for example, the ideas surrounding an unknown word.

• Theme

• Specialized Vocabulary

• Context

• Ethos

 Accurately saying something someone else has said or written using different words.

• Evidence

• Paraphrase

• Syntax

• Claim

The words an author chooses to use (can be connected to their purpose for writing.

• Specialized Vocabulary

• Slippery Slope

• Syntax

• Diction

 Visual displays accompanying a text that make complicated facts easier to grasp. 

• Tone

• Graphic Feature

• Claim

• Central Ideas

Information you cite from another source to support and strengthen a claim, reason, or inference.

• Main Idea

• Thesis

• Evidence

• Claim