ELA Key Details and Main Idea

The important idea or lesson repeated throughout the text.

• Plot

• Dictionary

• Theme

• Glossary

This gives facts, evidence, details, and other information that support a topic.

• Supporting details

• Introduction

• Plot

• Characters

A short description of something that was said or written, it contains the main idea.

• summarize

• characters

• punctuation

• fiction text

The lesson or moral of a text. It may be about life, society, or human nature

• index

• central message

• title page

• key detail

Information that supports the main idea in a piece of writing

• main Idea

• dialogue

• key details

• theme

The most important idea in a piece of writing

• theme

• opinion

• conflict

• main idea

The central message or lesson the author wants to share

• theme

• transitions

• plot

• conclusion

The person or character who tells the story

• contrast

• narrator

• opinion

• conflict

The end paragraph in which the author restates the main idea and sums up the main points

• key details

• conclusion

• inference

• contrast

What is the main idea of a text?

• A) The central point or message the author wants to convey

• B) The list of characters in the story

• C) The setting of the story

• D) The author's biography