Understanding Key Ideas and Supporting Details

How can you identify the key idea in an informational text?

• By focusing on the most repeated concept

• By reading only the first paragraph

• By looking at the pictures and captions only

• By skipping to the conclusion

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CCSS.RI.6.2

What is the best way to find supporting details for the key idea?

• Focusing only on the headings

• Ignoring examples and focusing on opinions

• Reviewing the text for evidence that backs up the key idea

• Reading the text backwards

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.6.3

Which of the following is NOT a method to determine key ideas in a text?

• Summarizing each paragraph

• Identifying the main theme

• Noting down repeated phrases or concepts

• Looking for the largest font

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CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

When trying to find supporting details, you should:

• Focus only on the colorful text or highlighted sections

• Ignore any data or statistics provided

• Consider the text's structure and layout

• Assume everything in the text is equally important

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.3

CCSS.RI.6.5

Which technique is effective in identifying the key idea of an informational text?

• Analyzing the introduction and conclusion for summaries of the main points

• Skipping sections that contain technical terms

• Only reading the side notes

• Basing understanding solely on images

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CCSS.RI.6.2

Key ideas are-

• small details that help the reader visualize the text.

• the main idea

• the most important ideas that support the thesis

• statments that introduce the main idea of the text.

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CCSS.RI.6.2

Why is the key idea important?

• To waste time and distract from the main topic.

• To understand the main point or purpose and guide further exploration or analysis.

• To confuse the reader and make the question more difficult.

• To provide unnecessary information and confuse the reader.

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CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.6.6