1. Chapter 3 Supporting Details
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Chapter 3
Supporting Details

2. Supporting Details What are they?
The reasons, examples, facts, steps, or other kind of evidence that explain the main idea.
Page 93 – read the paragraph about the penny.
What are the three major details?

3. Main Idea – But there are now good reasons for our government to phase the penny out of the economy.
Supporting Detail 1: Pennies take up more space than they are worth.
Supporting Detail 2: Pennies are a nuisance to the business community.
Supporting Detail 3: Pennies cost the nation as a whole.

4. What do supporting details do?
They give specific information that explains more about the main idea.
How does it help you to be able to recognize these supporting details?
Can find the important details in the story.

5. Major and Minor Details
Major details are ones that explain and develop the main idea.
Minor details are ones that fill out and give more information about the major details.
Page 95 – T V violence again.

6. Outlining Outlining is a way to organize your thoughts. I. Main Idea
Major detail
Minor detail

7. Clues to help you find the list of details.
Look for words that tell you a list of details is coming. (We saw these before!)
Page Just some examples:
Several kinds of four steps a few reasons
Among the results a series of three factors
Several advantages various causes
A number of

8. Another Clue Look for words that signal major details.
These are the addition words!
We have seen these before too. Page 97
Practice 1 - p. 98

9. The Outline
Main Idea: A few important approaches will prevent illness among the poor.
Major Detail 1: Focus on preventive health services.
Major Detail 2: Offer more extensive prenatal care.
Major Detail 3: Fight social conditions of poverty that breed disease.
B. The crowd…. P 99

10. Another way to use details
Mapping – visual outlines that show relationships between main ideas and supporting details.
Practice – p 100 – Check Your Understanding

11. And Yet One More!
Summarizing – Reducing a large amount of information into its most important points.
Could be main idea and supporting details.
Could be just the key terms (when taking notes) often followed by an example.
Practice 4 - p A

12. Chapter Review
Major and minor details provide the added information you need to make sense of a main idea.
List words and addition words can help you to find major and minor supporting details.
Outlining, mapping and summarizing are useful note-taking strategies.

13. More Review
Outlines show the relationship between the main idea, major details, and minor details of a passage.
Maps are very visual outlines.
Writing a definition and summarizing an example is a good way to take notes on a new term.

14. Group Practice Review Test 1 (108-109) Review Test 2 (109-110)
Home work
Review Test 4