Supporting Ideas in Developing Main Idea

What is the purpose of supporting ideas in a text?

• To provide entertainment to the reader

• To introduce new main ideas

• To develop and reinforce the central or main idea

• To contradict the main idea

Which of the following best describes how supporting details function in a paragraph?

• They serve as the main argument of the paragraph.

• They provide evidence and examples to explain the main idea.

• They offer alternative viewpoints to the main idea.

• They summarize the paragraph's content.

When analyzing a text, identifying key details helps to:

• Understand the author's personal life.

• Predict future events in the story.

• Understand the main idea and supporting details.

• Change the central theme of the text.

Summarizing supporting evidence in a text helps the reader to:

• Focus on minor details.

• Ignore the main idea.

• Recall the main points and how they are supported.

• Create a new storyline.

Analyzing the relationship between ideas in a text helps to:

• Identify grammatical errors.

• Understand how different ideas contribute to the overall message.

• Focus on irrelevant details.

• Memorize the text more easily.

Which of the following is an example of synthesizing information from a text?

• Copying a paragraph from the text.

• Listing all the characters in a story.

• Combining the main idea with supporting details to form a conclusion.

• Focusing on the illustrations only.

Identifying key details in a text is important because:

• It helps to increase the reading speed.

• It allows the reader to skip irrelevant sections.

• It aids in understanding the main idea more clearly.

• It is only necessary for non-fiction texts.

When summarizing supporting evidence, it is important to:

• Include every detail, regardless of its importance.

• Focus only on the evidence that contradicts the main idea.

• Selectively include details that reinforce the main idea.

• Rewrite the evidence in a complicated way.

The relationship between the main idea and supporting details is similar to:

• A river and its banks.

• A tree and its leaves.

• A painting and its frame.

• A book and its cover.

Synthesizing information from a text involves:

• Ignoring the main idea.

• Focusing on one detail at a time.

• Combining various elements to understand the text as a whole.

• Reading the text without taking notes.