Key Ideas and Supporting Details

Main Idea:
To scuba dive you need a lot of special equipment.

What supporting detail would NOT go with this main idea?

• Scuba divers prefer the waters of the Caribbean.

• A mask is used to help the scuba diver see things underwater.

• A scuba diver uses an oxygen tank to breathe under water.

• Flippers make swimming in the ocean much easier.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RI.5.2

What is the best question to ask yourself when you are trying to find the main idea?

• Who is the main character?

• What is the main event?

• What is one important detail?

• What point is the author trying to make?

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

When you determine the main idea and key details of a text while condensing information into a short paragraph, you are _____.

• predicting

• concluding

• summarzing

• judging

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CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.5.9

What do we call the sentences that justify the main idea?

• supporting details

• key words

• main characters

• central ideas

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

Frogs are amazing jumpers.

What detail would support this main idea?

• Frogs use their tongue to catch flies.

• A tadpole is the name of a young frog.

• The Fire-belly Toad has slightly warty skin.

• Frogs have long, powerful legs which help them leap long distances.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

What detail would support this main idea?

• Octopuses have two eyes and four pairs of arms.

• Octopuses like to live in coral reefs.

• Octopuses use camouflage to disguise themselves.

• Octopuses move about by crawling or swimming.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RI.5.2

Earthquakes can cause a lot of destruction.

What supporting detail would NOT go with this main idea?

• Earthquakes can also be known as quakes, tremors, or temblors.

• Many bridges are demolished when they wobble in a quake.

• When a building is not made earthquake safe, it can crumble

  to the ground.

• Earthquakes can create tsunamis, which

  can flood cities.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RI.5.2

Where is the main  idea located?

• First Sentence

• Anywhere in the passage

• In the End

• Nowhere

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

What do you call "what the story/passage is mostly about" in informational text?

• main idea

• theme

• inference

• plot

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

How do supporting details help to understand the main idea?

• Supporting details provide irrelevant information that distracts from the main idea.

• Supporting details contradict the main idea.

• Supporting details are unnecessary and do not contribute to understanding the main idea.

• Supporting details provide evidence, examples, and explanations that help to clarify and strengthen the main idea.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.2