Main Idea and supporting details intro

What is the main idea?

• Its the authors point of view

• Is what the passage is mostly about

• It is the sequence of the story.

An important farm crop in the United States is cotton. Cotton is used for making clothing. Cotton is still a popular choice for clothes because it is easy to clean and last a long time.

• Cotton is the most important U.S. crop.

• Cotton is not used today.

• Cotton is important for making clothes.

Seated on his throne, King Midas wore a golden crown. He had golden rings on each finger and held a golden scepter. His vest was embroidered with golden thread and even his shoes had golden ornaments. He had a golden box filled with gold coins. He named his daughter Marigold.
What is the main idea of this paragraph?

• King Midas loved gold.
• King Midas sold lots of gold.
• King Midas had a heart of gold.
• King Midas hated gold.

What are supporting details?

• Pieces of information that an author uses to develop the main idea and teach the reader about the topic

• The focus of an informational text; what the author wants the reader to learn or know

• Statistics that communicate important data to the reader

• The overall topic or focus of an informational text

Children and teens who eat healthy school lunches (as opposed to unhealthy lunches) are 340% more likely to remember information presented in class throughout the day.

What kind of supporting detail is this?

• Quote

• Example

• Statistic

• Definition

The United States is a democracy, a system of government in which leaders are elected by the general population.

What kind of supporting detail is this?

• Statistic

• Definition

• Quote

• Anecdote

Personification is great way to bring your writing to life! For instance, instead of writing "the cat played with the toy," you can say, "the cat danced joyfully about the new toy."

What kind of supporting detail is this?

• Definition

• Fact

• Statistic

• Example

As Rosa Parks famously said, "each person must live their life as a model for others."

What kind of supporting detail is this?

• Quote

• Fact

• Definition

• Example

Most of the other foods we think of as "nuts" are not really nuts at all. Peanuts, for example, usually have two seeds and break open easily. They are technically a legume because they grow in a pod. This is the same family of plants that produce their fruit (often beans) in a pod. Peanuts have more in common with snow peas than actual nuts.

Which supporting detail BEST supports the main idea that peanuts are not really nuts?

• They are technically a legume because they grow in a pod.

• Most of the other foods we think of as "nuts" are not really nuts at all.

• This is the same family of plants that produce their fruit (often beans) in a pod.

Match the following

• to bear or hold up; serve as a foundation for*any material that serves to prove a claim

• Facts

• a summary free from opinions or bias.

• objective summary

• something that actually exists and can be proven true

• Details

• information or facts that support or add more to the main idea

• Support

• Facts, statistics, examples, stories, quotations, definitions, reasons, comparisons which support yo

• Supporting Details