Main Ideas and Their Support

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Text features that indicate the main idea:

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All of these.

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Best question to find the main idea?

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What point is the author trying to make?

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Emma wanted a silky baby blue scarf. Babysitting for Mrs. Marple was her chance to earn money for it. After babysitting, she had enough cash and bought the scarf as a gift for her Mom.

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Babysitting helped Emma buy her Mom the perfect scarf.

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Topic of the paragraph: Texting is the main communication method for teens 12-17, with increasing daily texts as they age. Girls 14-17 send over 3,000 texts weekly, making unlimited texting essential for households with teens.

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Teens and texting.

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How to build a snowman: Start with wet, packable snow (6+ inches). Make a solid ball, roll it to collect more snow, and create a large base. Repeat for middle and head. Dress your snowman!

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Build a Snow Day Snowman!

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In 2012, Instagram's creators, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, sold their app to Mark Zuckerberg for $1 billion, making all 13 employees millionaires. If you printed the 21.9 billion photos uploaded in a year, it would span 4,693 miles, farther than Orlando from the North Pole. Supporting detail?

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All 13 joined the company in its first year.

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Supporting detail for the idea that keeping animals in a zoo is cruel?

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Animals should be in their natural environment.

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Supporting detail for recycling's importance?

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Recycling paper saves trees.

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Supporting detail for getting enough sleep?

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Seven to nine hours keeps you refreshed the next day.

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Supporting detail for: 'I think the ninja mice poisoned the cheese'

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I saw them sneaking into the kitchen last night, whispering something to each other.