Main Idea and Details

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What is the main idea of a story?

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The main idea is what the story is mostly about.

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What is a topic?

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A topic is the subject or main focus of a text.

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What are important details in a story?

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Important details are facts or information that support the main idea.

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What is an example of a main idea?

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Elephants are very large.

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What is an example of a topic?

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Zoo animals.

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True or False: Not all sentences in a text are important details.

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True.

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What do elephants use their trunks for?

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Drinking water and protecting themselves.

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What is the purpose of a story's details?

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To provide information that supports the main idea.

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What is the difference between a topic and a main idea?

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The topic is the subject, while the main idea is what the text says about that subject.

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What can be a topic of a group of animals?

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Zoo animals.