Main Ideas & Details

What is the best question to ask yourself when you are trying to find the main idea?

• What point is the author trying to make?

• What is the main event?

• What is one important detail?

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CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

Key details give important information to support the main idea.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

Read the following details and determine the main idea of the words.

-theater

-candy

-popcorn

-dark

• How to make popcorn.

• Halloween is here.

• Going to the movies.

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CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

Which sentence is a supporting detail that recycling is important?

• There are many landfills available for waste.

• Recycling paper saves trees from being cut down.

• Separate your paper, cans, and glass jars before recycling.

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CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.4.1

Which supporting detail best supports this topic sentence?

It takes a lot of hard work to become a professional athlete.

• All of us can be professional athletes.

• People like professional football players make a lot of money.

• Professional athletes spend countless hours practicing their sports.

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CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.4.1

What is the main idea of these sentences?

There can be wild animals in the woods.

It is easy to get lost in the woods.

There are pointy sticks in the woods.

• The woods are usually a safe place.

• There are lots of animals in the woods.

• The woods can be a dangerous place.

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CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

What is the main idea of this passage?

When you are baking cookies, you have to get your supplies and ingredients. These include bowls, butter, brown sugar, and eggs. Then you carefully add and mix them. Once you do that, you put the batter in the pan and carefully place the pan in the oven. When the cookies are golden brown you take them out and let them cool off. Yum!

• You have to get supplies to bake cookies

• How to bake cookies

• All about cookies

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CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

What is the main idea?

If you are feeling sad, you can make yourself feel better by doing a few simple things. You can take a walk (or get another form of exercise), you can talk to a friend, or you can write down your feelings. Writing down the good things in your life will help too. Doing something good for someone else will also help you feel better. If you still feel a little sad, act happy. It works like magic to make you feel better!

• Sometimes people feel sad.

• You should do good things for others.

• There are many ways to make yourself feel better.

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CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

What is the main idea?

I can't wait until this weekend! We’re going to my grandparents’ house and my entire family will be there. I will spend most of my time playing games with my cousins. We always have such a good time together! The day goes by so fast, and by the end we are all exhausted... but we still don’t want to leave!

• The author is sad to leave her cousins.

• The author enjoys spending time with her family.

• The author's grandparents live far away.

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CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

Read the following details and determine the main idea:

-Xbox

-online

-Fortnite

• watching TV

• playing Fortnite

• winning video games

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CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.4.2