Supporting Details

What are supporting details?

• Pieces of information that an author uses to develop the main idea and teach the reader about the topic

• The focus of an informational text; what the author wants the reader to learn or know

• Statistics that communicate important data to the reader

• The overall topic or focus of an informational text

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Children and teens who eat healthy school lunches (as opposed to unhealthy lunches) are 340% more likely to remember information presented in class throughout the day.

What kind of supporting detail is this?

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The United States is a democracy, a system of government in which leaders are elected by the general population.

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• Anecdote

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All around the world, children wake up, get dressed, brush their teeth, eat breakfast and walk to the bus stop. They talk with their peers about the day ahead, discussing upcoming tests and assignments. In some cases, all of this happens in the dark, before the sun has even risen. Yet studies show that later school start times are important for adolescent development and learning.

What kind of supporting detail is this?

• Anecdote

• Fact

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• Definition

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Personification is great way to bring your writing to life! For instance, instead of writing "the cat played with the toy," you can say, "the cat danced joyfully about the new toy."

What kind of supporting detail is this?

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As Rosa Parks famously said, "each person must live their life as a model for others."

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Most of the other foods we think of as "nuts" are not really nuts at all. Peanuts, for example, usually have two seeds and break open easily. They are technically a legume because they grow in a pod. This is the same family of plants that produce their fruit (often beans) in a pod. Peanuts have more in common with snow peas than actual nuts.

Which supporting detail BEST supports the main idea that peanuts are not really nuts?

• They are technically a legume because they grow in a pod.

• Most of the other foods we think of as "nuts" are not really nuts at all.

• This is the same family of plants that produce their fruit (often beans) in a pod.

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On February 18th, 2021, NASA's new rover, Perseverance, arrived on Mars, a neighboring planet in our solar system. During a seven month journey, it traveled 470 million kilometers (300 million miles) to reach Mars. The exploration robot landed in a region called the Jezero Crater. Near the planet's equator, the crater is 45 kilometers wide (28 miles). Perseverance will spend two years searching for evidence of microbial life that could have existed on Mars billions of years ago. Learning more about the composition of Mars can help scientists better understand the planet's history.

Which supporting detail BEST supports the main idea that NASA is using a new rover to learn more about Mars?

• During a seven-month journey, it traveled 470 million kilometers (300 million miles) to reach Mars.

• The exploration took place in a region called the Jezero Crater.

• Perseverance will spend two years searching for evidence of microbial life that could have existed on Mars billions of years ago.

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You might've seen the famous poster of Rosie the Riveter. She wears a red bandanna, blue overalls, and flexes her arm muscle. Above her is the saying "We Can Do It!" During World War II, this image represented the millions of female laborers. As men were off to war, women took their place in the factories and U.S. military businesses.

However, the famed Rosie image misses something. More than 500,000 of the women working at this time were "Black Rosies." They worked tirelessly in shipyards, factories, offices and elsewhere. All the while they fought both the foreign enemy abroad and the enemy of racism at home.

Which supporting detail BEST supports the main idea that Black women helped to support the war effort during WWII?

• You might've seen the famous poster of Rosie the Riveter.

• During the war, this image represented the millions of female laborers.

• More than 500,000 of the women working at this time were "Black Rosies."

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What do you think of when you hear the word "zoo?" Do you picture a nice habitat or a spacious enclosure? Perhaps you think a zoo is a vacation for animals before they are returned to the wild? These ideas couldn't be further from the truth. Many animals who live in zoos never return to the wild. Zoos are ultimately harmful to animals for three main reasons. First, zoos breed animals inhumanely. Second, they do not effectively help animals get back into the wild. Third, they do not provide enough resources for the animals in their care. For these reasons, zoos should be shut down and banned, or stopped altogether.

Which supporting detail BEST supports the main idea that zoos should be banned?

• What do you think of when you hear the word "zoo?"

• Zoos are ultimately harmful to animals for three main reasons.

• These ideas couldn't be further from the truth.

• Zoos breed animals inhumanely.

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