Main Idea of Nonfiction Text

The evidence that supports the main idea

• Main idea

• Pacing

• Narrator

• Key details

Brief statement of the main points, telling the story in your own words

• Inference

• Adage

• Proverb

• Summarize

Text organization in which facts and details lead to one main idea

• Sequential structure

• Inference

• Part to whole structure

• Narrator

Describes factual information about people places and events

• Narrator

• Trait

• Pacing

• Nonfiction

the controlling, or overarching, idea that states the main point the writer chooses to make

• supporting details

• central idea

• text features

• key details

important pieces of information that support the main idea of the text

• domain-specific vocabulary

• topic

• theme

• key details

relevant quotations and concrete details that support the main idea

• supporting evidence

• central idea

• text features

• topic

The main idea is the same as the _________ _________

• text features

• text structures

• central idea

• key details

The main idea of a nonfiction text is often supported by:

• A) Opinions

• B) Key details

• C) Fictional elements

• D) Personal anecdotes

What is the term for the main point the author wants to convey in a nonfiction text?

• A) Theme

• B) Plot

• C) Central idea

• D) Characterization