Main Idea and Details

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What is main idea?

Back

what the text is mainly about

Front

What should you NOT use to find the main idea? Options: pictures in the text, text headings and titles, teacher answer sheets, clue words that are repeated.

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teacher answer sheets

Front

What is the one question you should ask when looking for a text's main idea?

Back

What is the text talking about?

Front

True or False? A text will always only have one main idea.

Back

False

Front

What educational tool or thing can we use when we are working on finding the main idea of a passage?

Back

Graphic organizer

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___________ details are used to back up the main idea.

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Supporting

Front

We can use _________ information to support our concluded main idea.

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important

Front

Irrelevant details are ________. Options: useful, effective, useless, important

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useless

Front

Will the author always plainly state what the main idea is in the story or text?

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No way! Sometimes we have to do some reading between the lines.

Front

Clue words used repeatedly are ______.

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important