Main Idea

Main idea isthe pupose of that passage.

Discovering
To find the main idea, just look at the sentence that the entire subject revoles on and that sentence should be the main idea.

Details
With every good passage, there is at least three deatails and a main idea. The three details support the main idea.

Learning
The student must be able to tell the difference between the detail and main idea. The details always support the main idea give examples and never the other way around.

Meaning
The main idea brings in a subject such as plants and the details may represent what color, what size, and what kind.

Language Arts/Reading

Standard 2: The student constructs
meaning from a wide range of texts
(LA.A.2.3).

Objective 1: Determines the main
idea or essential message in a text
and identifies relevant details and
facts and patterns of organization.

When you parse, you break
down a sentence into verbs,
nouns, etc.

Brainstorming Fun

Critical Thinking: If a Hollywood
Director came up to you and said
you can be in a movie, but all you
have to do is sing a song on spider
monkeys, would you look for reasearch?

Vocabulary

Predictions - An act of predicting.

Content - The amount of specified
material contained.

Purpose - Something set up as an
object or end to be attained

Organization - The act or process
of organizing or of being organized.

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