Main Idea

What is the Main Idea of a text?

• What parts of the text are about.

• What the beginning is about.

• The title of the text.

• What the whole text is mostly about.

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CCSS.RI.1.2

CCSS.RL.1.2

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RI.2.2

CCSS.RI.K.2

What are key details in a text?

• The beginning of the text.

• What the text is mostly about.

• The parts of the text that tell you what the main idea is.

• Where the story in the text takes place.

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CCSS.RI.1.2

CCSS.RL.1.2

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RI.1.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

What did we compare the main idea to?

• Tree branches.

• The sun.

• The tree trunk.

• The leaves on a tree.

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CCSS.RI.1.2

CCSS.RL.1.2

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RI.2.2

CCSS.RI.K.2

What did we compare the key details in a text to?

• The tree trunk.

• The leaves on the tree.

• The tree branches.

• The sun.

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CCSS.RI.1.2

CCSS.RL.1.2

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RI.1.1

CCSS.RL.1.1

What are some of the key details that tell you what the main idea of this paragraph is?

Once there was a little boy named Steve. Steve loved to read books. He read all kinds of books. He read mystery books. He read action books. Why, he even read books about insects! For his birthday one year his mom brought him to the biggest library in America. Steve was so excited! He had always wanted to go and when did finally got to go with his mom he felt like the luckiest person alive. Ever since that birthday Steve has decided he will never stop reading.

• "his mom brought him to the biggest library in America."

• "Steve loved to read books."

• "He read all kinds of books."

• "Once there was a little boy named Steve."

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CCSS.RI.1.2

CCSS.RL.1.2

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RI.2.2

CCSS.RI.K.2