Main Idea & Supporting Details.

Main Idea & Supporting Details

What would you write about?

• Is it possible to have many different paragraphs from one idea?

• Who decides which idea a paragraph will be about?

• A writer tries to tell us their idea with words and sentences. It is up to the reader to get the message. Do you know how to get the message?

What is the author's message? What is the main idea? Listen as I read

• Whom was this paragraph about?

• What special or interesting thing does the paragraph tell about the artists?

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Open Ended

Put the answers to the two previous questions together to find the main idea. What is the main idea of the paragraph?

Multiple Choice

Which sentence in the paragraph gives the main idea?

• seventh

• second

• first

• last

There is a lot more information in this paragraph.

• What are the other sentences for?

• What other information did we find out?

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