Supporting details

What are supporting details?

• The most important or the big idea from the text .

• Additional information that helps explain, define or prove the main idea.

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CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

Supporting details make the main idea stronger.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.1

Why do we need supporting details?

• Gives you more information.

• Helps you get a better picture of the story.

• Is the author's opinion.

• Is the best part of the story.

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CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

Choose a supporting detail. "I am affraid of the dark."

• I imagine all sorts of scary things.

• My sister likes being in the dark.

• I sleep with my parents.

• When the sun goes down, it gets dark.

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CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

Choose a supporting detail. "Building a snowman is so much fun".

• There were several snowmen on our block.

• I love the snow days because that means school is out!

• I love making the large balls of snow for the body.

• I wear mittens when there is snow outside.

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CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

Which detail would you look for when reading a recipe on how to make cookies?

• Place the show in the bowl.

• Mix the flour, egg, and sugar together.

• Put icing on the cake.

• Put the chocolate on top of the ice cream.

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CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.1

Which detail does not belong? "My best friend and I are so much alike".

• We do not have anything in common.

• We both love romantic comedies.

• We always laugh at the same corny jokes.

• She loves chcolate ice cream as much as I do

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CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.1

Choose the detail that does not belong. "The food in the cafeteria was delicious".

• I wanted to go back for seconds.

• It tastes like a big pile of mush.

• It tasted just like my grandma's spaguettis.

• They served spaguettis and meatballs.

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CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.1

Choose the supporting detail. "Polar bears have adaptations that help them survive in the Artic" .

• Polar bears swim in the water.

• Polar bears have two layers of fur.

• Polar bears eat fish and seals.

• Polar bears hibernate in the winter.

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CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

"Without the sun, there would not be life on Earth". What is the supporting detail?

• The sun is a star.

• The sun provides us with both heat and light.

• The sun is a glowing ball of fiery gas.

• You could not fit more than a million Earths inside the sun.

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CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.1