Central Idea/Suffixes/Possessive Pronouns

Central Idea/

Suffixes/

Possessive Pronouns

Determine Central Idea

• In informational text, the central idea, or main idea, is the most important

  idea that an author of a text wants you to know about the topic.

• You can look for the central idea of the entire text and you can look for the central idea in

  each paragraph.

Topic Sentences

• The topic sentence of a paragraph states the paragraph's central idea

• In informational text, the topic sentence is often the first sentence in a paragraph. However, it may appear anywhere in the paragraph.

To find the central idea, follow these steps:

• Identify the specific topic of each paragraph or section.

• Examine all the details the author includes.

Supporting Details

• Supporting details are words, phrases, or sentences that tell more about the central idea.

• Facts, opinions, examples, statistics, and anecdotes are all supporting details that writers may use depending on the type of writing.

Supporting Details

• A fact is a statement that can be proved.

  • An opinion is a statement that expresses a person's beliefs, feelings, or

  thoughts. An opinion cannot be proved.

  • An example is a specific instance that helps to explain an idea, such as a personal story or experience.

  • A statistic is a fact that is expressed in numbers.

  • An anecdote is a short account of an interesting incident

Multiple Select

Which of the following is an example of a supporting detail? (Check al that apply)

• A fact

• An opinion

• An example

• A statistic

• An anecdote

Vocabulary Strategy: Suffixes that Form Nouns

• A suffix is a word part that appears at the end of a root or base word to form a new word.

• Some Latin suffixes, such as -ance, -ence, and -ant, can be added to verbs to form nouns.

• If you can recognize the verb that a suffix is attached

  to, you can often figure out the meaning of the noun formed from it.

Suffixes that Form Nouns

-ance/-ence ending

• For example, -ence is added to confide to make confidence. One meaning of

  confide is “to tell in secret.”

• Confidence means “trust or the act of confiding.”

Open Ended

Use context clues to define the verb in the following word & define the noun: PERFORMANCE

Open Ended

Use context clues to define the verb in the following word & define the noun: EMERGENCE

Posessive Pronouns

• Pronouns are words that take the place of nouns or other pronouns. Personal pronouns change form to show how they function in a sentence.

• A possessive pronoun shows ownership. Here are some examples from “In the Spotlight”:

Possessive Pronouns

• "Instead, we shift the focus of our eyes around the other person’s face—from their eyes to their mouth and nose and back again . . ."

• In this sentence, both our and their are examples of possessive pronouns. Both are used to indicate ownership: our refers to the subjective pronoun we, and their refers to the “other person.”