Homeschool . ELA . Natural Connections

 Main Idea and Key Details

key detail: A key detail is a fact used to support the main idea in a text. 

main idea: The main idea is the most important point an author makes about a topic.

Informational Text: Narrative Nonfiction

narrative nonfiction: Narrative nonfiction is a type of text that gives factual information about a topic in “story” form. It may tell one person’s experiences related to that topic or present the author’s point of view through a particular voice or tone.

Summarize

summarize: Summarize is a comprehension strategy in which the reader stops and retells the most important details in a paragraph or section of text to check understanding.

Vocabulary

• context clues: Context clues are words in a sentence surrounding an unfamiliar word that help the reader figure out the word’s meaning. 
• sentence clues: Sentence clues are context clues in a sentence to help a reader figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word.

Irregular Plural Nouns

irregular plural noun: An irregular plural noun is a noun that refers to more than one in number, but it does not follow a normal inflectional ending pattern.