Main Idea and Supporting Details Ice Cream Cone

What is main idea?

• The details that support or tell more about the main idea

• The most important point the author is trying to make

• The topic

• The conclusion of a story

What are supporting details?

• The most important point the author is trying to make

• The topic

• The central idea

• Statements that help explain or prove the author's point

The main idea is

• the supporting part of the story.

• the end of the story.

• them most important part of the story.

• the least important part of the story.

Supporting details make your main idea that much

What happens when your supporting details do not support the main idea?

• The reader will become confused and the story won't make any sense

• As long as you include lots of different details, it doesn't matter if they support the main idea

Topic and main idea are the same thing.

• True

• False

A topic is just the subject while the main idea is the most important point the author is trying to make.

• True

• False