Cumulative Review: Main Idea and Author's Purpose

When reading a text, what steps should you take to find the main idea (or theme)? Select all that apply. 

• Look for repetition (repeating ideas)

• Read the introduction paragraph to identify the thesis/main idea

• Read the conclusion paragraph to identify final major points the author may make 

• Identify the topic/subject of the text ("what" or "who" the text is mainly about)

• Annotate by highlighting or underlining supporting details

• Read

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What is the Main Idea?

• The solution to the conflict in the text

• The overall message of the text that a writer intends to make known to the audience.

• The antagonist of the text

• The reason the author created the text (i.e. educate, inform, persuade, warn, celebrate, etc.)

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Main Idea is synonymous to (the same as) which other term?

• Central Idea

• Author's Purpose

• Author's Point of View

• R.A.C.E.

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What are supporting details?

• Facts, Examples, and Explanations that help develop the main idea.

• Different ways to restate the main idea

• The overall lesson readers should understand after reading the text

• Information about the author that helps readers better understand author's purpose

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What is Theme?

• The lesson or moral of a story

• The way the author views the world around them

• A rare condition where one can see shapes, colors, and textures associated with numbers

• The conflict within a text that the main character must solve

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Theme (found in fiction) and Main Idea (found in nonfiction) are the same?

• True

• False

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Now that you have identified the main idea of a text, and you are ready to write a constructed response, which method should you use to correctly format the text?

• R.A.C.E.

• Literature Signposts

• P.R.I.D.E.

• R.A.T.T.

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What does R.A.C.E. stand for?

• Restate, Answer, Cite, Explain

• Re-read, Answer, Conclude, Explain

• Revise, Analyze, Cite, Evaluate

• Restate, Annotate, Cite, Evaluate

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You are ready to write your constructed response. You begin with a topic sentence. What should be included in the topic sentence?

• Title, Author's name, Genre, Verb, Claim

• Title, Author's Name, Claim

• Title, Author's Name, Summary of text, background info on author, Claim

• "I think" phrase as intro, author's name, title, claim

Which topic sentence is written correctly?

• I think Jim Vega's purpose for writing the article "The More You Know, the Smarter You Are?" is to persuade readers that...

• Vega wrote his article to inform readers that...

• Jim Vega composed "The More You Know, the Smarter You Are" to inspire readers to...

• It's clear to readers that Jim's article is meant to educate and inform readers that...

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