Central Idea and Supporting Details

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What is Central Idea?

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What the text is mostly about

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What are supporting details?

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Sentences that tell us about, describe, or explain the stories central idea

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Why is finding supporting details important?

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Supporting Details tell us more about the central idea.

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What is the central idea of this text about bats?

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Bats are good for the environment.

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Which is a supporting detail? Bats can eat up to 600 mosquitoes in one hour., Bats and insects are friends., Bats are harmful to the environment.

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Bats can eat up to 600 mosquitoes in one hour.