Lesson 8: Main Idea, Supporting Details and Summary

Lesson 8 : Main idea, Supporting details, & Summary

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~ I can determine the main idea of an text.

~ I can support the main idea using supporting details.

~ I can write a summary of an text ​

​Main Idea

• A main idea is found in every nonfiction text, sometimes it is called a central idea.

• The main idea is the most important idea the author conveys about the topic in the text.

• Each paragraph or section of the text has a main idea that supports the overall main idea of the text. ​

• ​A main idea of a nonfiction text may be called a thesis or hypothesis.

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​Step 1: Identify the topic

Step 2: Summarize the passage in your own words

Step​ 3: Check the first and last sentences

Step 4: Look for repetition of ideas ​

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​Determining a main idea

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Multiple Choice

Mount Rushmore is a huge carving in a stone cliff. The carving shows the faces of four U.S. presidents. They are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. Mount Rushmore is in South Dakota. Each year many people visit this amazing sight.

What is the main idea?

• Mount Rushmore is a carving in stone cliff.

• Mount Rushmore is in South Dakota

• George Washington is one of the faces on Mount Rushmore

• Mount Rushmore attracts visitors

​supporting details

• These details are important to the text & support the main idea.

• ​ Supporting details ​describes or explain the main idea of the text

• The author use evidence such as details , facts, reasons, examples, statistics, and quotations, to develop the main idea.

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Multiple Choice

What are supporting deatils in a nonfiction passage?

• Unnecessary information

• Facts or examples that support the theme

• Conversation between character

• Facts or examples that support the main idea

Multiple Choice

What are the facts and/or examples in the paragraph called?

• Facts

• Supporting Deatails

• Opinions

• Summary

Multiple Choice

Mount Rushmore is a huge carving in a stone cliff. The carving shows the faces of four U.S. presidents. They are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. Mount Rushmore is in South Dakota. Each year many people visit this amazing sight.

What is a deatil that tells about the main idea?

• How the four presidents were chosen

• Mount Rushmore is rarely visited because it is in South Dakota

• No one is interested in Mount Rushmore anymore

• Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, and Lincoln are the presidents carved into Mount Rushmore

​Summary

• ​A summary is a shortened version of a text.

• ​Summarizes contains important points, ides, & themes of the text.

• The summary should be written in your own words.

• ​The overall summary does not contain opinions, judgments, or biases.

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Step 1: Restate the main ideas

Step 2: Significant supporting points if the text in your own words ​

Step 3 : Add other important ​facts of the text

Step 4 ​Check your Summary against the text

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​Writing a summary

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Open Ended

Summarize the text:

Mount Rushmore is a huge carving in a stone cliff. The carving shows the faces of four U.S. presidents. They are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. Mount Rushmore is in South Dakota. Each year many people visit this amazing sight.