3rd Grade SBAC ELA Vocab

What does "passage" mean?

• main idea

• a journey

• the text

• story

What is the word for "what the whole text is mainly about"?

• main idea

• message

• key details

• narrator

What is the word for "the point of view from which a story is told"?

• main idea

• message

• key details

• narrator

What is the word for "what the author wants the reader to learn"?

• main idea

• message

• key details

• narrator

What is the word for "a guess about something that isn't explained in the text"?

• main idea

• message

• inference

• narrator

What supports a main idea?

• the title

• details

• key details

• the characters

What does "support" mean?

• to prove that something is wrong

• to make something true, help show as true

• to make an opinion of something

What does "conclusion" mean?

• to prove that something is wrong

• to make something true, help show as true

• to make an opinion of something after gathering information

What are other ways to say "story"? (pick 3)

• passage

• text

• source

• research

What does "purpose" mean?

• the title of the text

• the message of the story

• the person who wrote the text

• the reason behind something, the why