Warm-Up Correct these sentences 1. would you like bread with your salad 2. does you needs help with hanging the bicycle tire Singular or plural noun? 3. Dolphin 4. Children Which word is not spelled correctly? 5. daisy egg loop lern
Objective: Identify main idea and supporting details.
What is the main idea? Main Idea is what the whole topic is about.
What are supporting details? Supporting details are ideas about the main idea. They support the topic.
RULE!!!! Almost always the main idea will be in the first or last sentence. All the other sentences are the supporting details!!!
Example with categories Baseball Football Sports Hockey
Examples with Categories Cats Animals Dogs Lizards
What is the main idea? Red Blue Black Colors
What is the main idea? Zoo Places Mall Disneyland
What is the main idea? Ruler, Desk, Chalkboard, Pencil a. Items in a desk b. Items in a bathroom c. Items in a kitchen d. Items in a classroom
What is a detail? Fruit, apple, _______, pineapple a. Orange b. Potato c. Carrots d. Pencil
What is the detail? Bodies of Water, _______, lake, river a. Mountain b. Ocean c. Valley d. Indians
What is the main Idea? Read pg. 75 in the story. a. It is hard to know how many dollars are lost in one day. b. It’s easy to drop a dollar because it weighs so little c. About 490 one-dollar bills make a pound.
What is the main idea? Read pg. 77 a. The front of every dollar has a long number in green ink, which appears in two different places. b. No two dollars have the same serial number. c. These bills are called star notes.
What is a supporting detail? Read pg. 79 a. If dollars are in water a short time, they usually aren’t damaged. b. This is because dollars are printed on especially strong paper made of cotton, linen, and silk. c. They can’t be ripped easily either.
Closure What is the main idea in a paragraph? What is a supporting detail?