Understanding Main Idea

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What is the main idea?

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The most important thing an author wants readers to know.

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supporting details

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things that help explain the main idea

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fiction

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totally made up

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nonfiction

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true story; can be proven

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summarizing

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retell in your own words, the main events in a story

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key details

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the most important things in the story that are used to summarize

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context clues

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clues in astory that help us understand something unfamiliar

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synonym

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a word that means about the same thing as another word

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antonym

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opposite

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homophone

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two words that sound the same but are spelled differently