Main Ideas and Supporting Details

What type of supporting detail is illustrated below?

Supporting Detail: Online time has doubled since 2006 and social media use moved from a periodic activity to a daily one (Twenge 1).

• anecdote

• fact

• analogy

• expert opinion

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CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

What type of supporting detail is illustrated below?

Supporting Detail: While 70% of 8th and 10th graders once went to the movies once a month or more, now only about half do

• expert opinion/testimony

• description

• analogy

• statistic

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CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

What type of supporting detail is illustrated below?

Supporting Detail: There were bound volumes of a children's magazine called St. Nicholas, full of spidery drawings of animals that talked, and villains who didn't. There were picture books bursting with images of lost cities or the solar system. In that room, I learned that the world was larger than our neighborhood.

• personal observation

• statistic

• anecdote

• example

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CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

What type of supporting detail is illustrated below?

Supporting Detail: The libraries of Brooklyn and Queens are jammed with the new immigrants and their astonishing children, the people who will build the New York of tomorrow.

• analogy

• example

• description

• fact

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CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

Which detail best helps to develop the idea below?

Despite the fact that most people thing of boredom as a negative feeling, it can actually be a useful experience.

• When not being [overparented], kids today are left to their own devices- their own digital devices, that is.

• The ability to handle boredom, not surprisingly, is correlated with the ability to focus and to self-regulate.

• It’s especially important that kids get bored — and be allowed to stay bored — when they’re young.

• Rather than teach them to absorb material that is slower, duller and decidedly two-dimensional, like a lot of worthwhile information is, schools cave in to what they say children expect: fun.

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CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.7.1

Which detail best helps to develop the idea below?

Weather changes can impact our productivity levels.

• But each season has its share of attractive days — and a skier’s mind would likely have many opportunities to wander in the dead of winter

• In his meticulous diaries, written from 1846 to 1882, the Harvard librarian John Langdon Sibley complains often about the withering summer heat: “The heat wilts & enervates me & makes me sick...

• In one study, high humidity lowered concentration and increased sleepiness among participants. The weather also hurt their ability to think critically: the hotter it got, the less likely they were to question what they were told.

• People get happier as days get longer and warmer in the approach to the summer solstice, and less happy as days get colder and shorter.

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CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

Which detail best helps to develop the idea below?

Due to the design of many social media platforms, people are more likely to stay within their "real life" social cliques and interest circles while online.

• Facebook and Twitter can act as echo chambers where you interact primarily with others who have similar interests and politics.

• Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter are helping people keep in touch with friends and family.

• Gaunt, who is African-American, says having conversations about race on Twitter has been a freeing experience. People feel they can be honest, she says.

• Dwayne Aikens uses Facebook to stay in touch with people he already knows — friends and family who, for the most part, share his political views.

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CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.7.2