Main Idea and Supporting Details Vocab

the central or most important idea about a topic that the writer wants to communicate to readers.

• Main Idea

• Conclusion

• Analogy

• Subject

*to bear or hold up; serve as a foundation for

*any material that serves to prove a claim

• Supporting Details

• Details

• Support

• objective summary

information or facts that support or add more to the main idea

• Supporting Details

• Details

• Facts

• objective summary

Facts, statistics, examples, stories, quotations, definitions, reasons, comparisons which support your main idea; details help make the main idea clear

• Details

• Support

• Facts

• objective summary

Why is it important to understand the main idea of a text?

• To improve your vocabulary

• To pass the time while reading

• To better understand the author's message

• To learn how to write long paragraphs

Which of the following best represents the main idea?

• Specific facts and examples used to support the main idea.

• The central point or message that the author wants to convey.

• A moral or lesson that can be learned from the story.

• A brief summary of the story's events.

Which of the following is a good strategy to find the main idea?

• Guessing before reading

• Focusing on the pictures only

• Reading the first and last sentence

• Asking questions about what is most important in the text

main idea that is not stated directly in the text; it is implied

• Explicit Main Idea

• Implicit Main Idea

• essential

• emphasize

Match the following

• Facts, statistics, examples, stories, quotations, definitions, reasons, comparisons which support yo

• Details

• something that actually exists and can be proven true

• Support

• to bear or hold up; serve as a foundation for*any material that serves to prove a claim

• objective summary

• a summary free from opinions or bias.

• Supporting Details

• information or facts that support or add more to the main idea

• Facts

The most important point the writer is trying to make is DIRECTLY stated.

• Explicit Main Idea

• Implicit Main Idea

• essential

• opinion