Main Idea

Main Idea

• Facts, statistics, examples, stories, quotations, definitions, reasons, comparisons which support your main idea; details help make the main idea clear

• what the author wants the reader to know about the subject

• the topic of the text - usually one or two words at most

• the central or most important idea about a topic that the writer wants to communicate to readers.

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

Topic

• the general subject

• the central point

• Facts, statistics, examples, stories, quotations, definitions, reasons, comparisons which support your main idea; details help make the main idea clear

• supporting details

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.6.1

Supporting Detail

• retelling the main ideas of a text in your own words.

• another way to say implicit main idea

• to bear or hold up; serve as a foundation for

• a piece of information or example that supports the main idea

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.6.2

Central Idea

• the reader has to figure out the main idea of a text

• a term that means the same thing as topic

• a term that means the same thing as main idea

• the main idea has been directly stated - reader could underline it

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

Subject

• the topic of the text - usually one or two words at most

• The main idea of a text

• what the author wants the reader to know about the subject

• an ending or wrap-up for your writing

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

Details

• The topic or subject

• Facts, statistics, examples, stories, quotations, definitions, reasons, comparisons which support your main idea; details help make the main idea clear

• The main idea of the text

• When the main idea is stated directly in the text

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

Supporting Details

• the main idea

• what the story, passage or other text is about

• the topic of the text - usually one or two words at most

• information or facts that support or add more to the main idea

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

Summarizing

• a piece of information or example that supports the main idea

• what the author wants the reader to know about the subject

• Retelling the main ideas of a text in your own words.

• the topic of the text - usually one or two words at most

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.9

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

Conclusion

• an ending or wrap-up for your writing

• a piece of information or example that supports the main idea

• what the story, passage or other text is about

• the topic of the text - usually one or two words at most

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

What is the main idea of the following paragraph?

"Edouard de Laboulaye, a French writer and law professor, admired the freedoms enjoyed in the United States. He supported Abraham Lincoln's freeing of slaves during the Civil War. After the war, in 1865, he suggested that France present a statue to the U.S. The statue was meant to honor Lincoln and American democracy. At that time, the French people had little say in their government. Laboulaye hoped the statue would encourage the French to demand more freedom at home. Work began on the project in 1875. Ten years later, the statue, known as the Statue of Liberty, finally arrived in New York."

• Eduard de Laboulaye wanted the Statue of Liberty to inspire freedom and democracy in France.

• Edouard de Laboulaye came up with the idea for the Statue of Liberty after the American Civil War ended.

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2