Central Idea and Supporting Details

What is Central Idea?

• What the text is mostly about

• Sentences that tell us about, describe, or explain the central idea

What are supporting details?

• What the text is mostly about

• Sentences that tell us about, describe, or explain the stories central idea

Why is finding supporting details important?

• Supporting Details tell us more about the central idea.

• Supporting details are not important.

Bats

Some kinds of bats eat many insects. Some bats can eat up to 600 mosquitoes in one hour. Bats are helpful to the environment. They help us by eating the insects. Without bats, we would have too many insects.

What is the central idea of this text?

• Bats only fly at night

• Insects are annoying

• Bats are good for the environment

Bats

Some kinds of bats eat many insects. Some bats can eat up to 600 mosquitoes in one hour. Bats are helpful to the environment. They help us by eating the insects. Without bats, we would have too many insects.

Which is a supporting detail?

• Bats can eat up to 600 mosquitoes in one hour.

• Bats and insects are friends.

• Bats are harmful to the envrionment.