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| What the text is mostly about or the point the author is trying to get across. It’s different from the subject or topic. |
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| States or strongly suggests the focus of the paragraph. |
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| Facts or details that help explain, describe, or tell more about the main idea or topic. |
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| Tells the main idea and most important or key details of a passage. |
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| A guess based on clues and what you already know. When you infer, you understand something that is not stated directly. Clues/Details + What You Already Know = Inference. |
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| Conclusion: An opinion or decision that is formed after a period of thought or research. It can also be a statement that sums up what your entire essay is about. To draw a conclusion, you make a judgment about what has taken place in the story. |
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| Prior Knowledge: Information that you currently know, understand or misunderstand about the topic and you use this knowledge before, during, and after reading to clarify misconceptions and understand the text. |
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| Writing it in your own words and referring directly to the story. This can be represented in three ways: paraphrasing, summarizing or quoting |
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| Something that is expressed or readily observable: Explicit—Expressed easily! |
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| Something that is implied or indirect: Implicit—Implied! |
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| not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts.—An objective summary of a text. |
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| based on or influenced by personal feelings, tastes, or opinions.- Blog |
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| (an ideaa How an idea becomes apparent, important, or prominent. |
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| to make clear (in thought or language). |
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