Main Idea and Supporting Sentences

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What is the main idea of a reading selection?

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What the text is mainly about.

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Why is it important to locate a main idea? How will it help you?

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Locating the main idea will help you comprehend a text better.

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What are supporting details (also known as concrete details)?

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Quotes, facts, examples all located within the text to help support the main idea.

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What is the main idea of the following paragraph?

Robots are being used in sumo wrestling contests. Sumo wrestling is a sport that started in Japan. It takes place in a ring. Two players try to score points by holding each other down or pushing each other out of the ring. Robot sumo uses robots instead of humans. The robot that scores the most points wins?

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Robots are being used in sumo wrestling contests.

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Which of the following is a supporting detail of this paragraph?
Robots are being used in sumo wrestling contests. Sumo wrestling is a sport that started in Japan. It takes place in a ring. Two players try to score points by holding each other down or pushing each other out of the ring. Robot sumo uses robots instead of humans. The robot that scores the most points wins.
Options: Robots are being used in sumo wrestling contests, Robots sumo contests are better than human sumo contests., Watching robot sumo is boring.

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Robot sumo uses robots instead of humans.

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What is the main idea of the following paragraph?
Mother gorillas do a lot for their babies. They nurse their babies. They protect them from danger. And they teach the tiny gorillas how to get along with other gorillas.

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Mother gorillas do a lot for their babies.

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What is one supporting detail from the text?
Mother gorillas do a lot for their babies. They nurse their babies. They protect them from danger. And they teach the tiny gorillas how to get along with other gorillas.

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They teach the tiny gorillas how to get along with other gorillas.

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What is a topic sentence?

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Topic sentences are always the start of any paragraph and usually contain the main idea of the paragraph.

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What is a commentary?

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Your own analysis or explanation about any detail in the text.

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What is the difference between their and there?

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Their: Possessing or showing ownership.
There: Location. "Over there!"