Purpose of EF 6.x DbContext Generator option when adding a new data item in Visual Studio

I have a web app that I built using LINQ to SQL and I’m looking to upgrade it to LINQ to Entity Framework. I’ve looked at some tutorials and what I’ve learned is that basically in the database-first scenario, you create an ADO.NET Entity Data Model. And from there, you select which tables to include in the model (very similar to LINQ to SQL).