Non-fiction text

When you are asked to find out the Main Idea of a text, you must

• Look for facts (details) in the passage.

• look at just the title

• make our own guesses about what the author is thinking.

• ignore the assignment and hope no one notices.

Which of the following is an example of a main idea of a book?

• Superpup is a brave beagle that fights crime in New York.

• I read a story about Duke, a police dog.

• Slap Jake is my favorite comic book hero.

• Sparky is cute

Which of the following could be an example of the "What"( or subject of a book?)

• Dolphins can communicate with one another.

• dolphins

• Whistling is one way that dolphins talk to each other.

• Have you ever heard a dolphin?

Which question would be most helpful for figuring out the main idea of a book?

• What is the main thing the author wants to say?

• Who is the author?

• What the authors favorite food?

What is the "What", or Subject of this text?

• Red Pandas

• Fish

• Pandas

What was the "so what", or the Main Idea of this text?

• Sharks have many teeth that they lose and grow throughout their lifetime.

• Sharks love to swim

• Sharks have funny smiles

• The Red Pandas love bamboo

What do I mean if I ask you to "Shrink a text?"

• Give the Main Idea of the text in 1 sentence.

• zoom out on the computer

• Tell the plot of the fiction story

What is NOT one of the strategies we learned to find the Main Idea?

• Shrink-a-text

• "What"? "So What"?

• Notice what repeat

• just guess

Knowing that my uncle was born in 1972 made it easy for me to __________his age.

• calculate

• concerned

• accurate

• flexible