Implied Main Ideas and Implied Central Ideas

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Implied Main Ideas and Implied Central Ideas

• Chapter 8

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Reading around the text
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What is an implied main idea?

• A main idea that is NOT stated directly but is
  strongly suggested by the supporting details in
  the passage
• You must figure out the authors controlling
  point about a topic
• One way is by studying the facts, examples,
  descriptions, explanations given
• Another way is to identify the authors thought
  pattern
• Effective readers do BOTH!

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Using supporting details and thought patterns to
find implied main ideas

• Main idea frame of a house- must include all
  rooms (details)
• Main idea has two parts topic and the authors
  controlling point about the topic
• Authors opinion or bias
• Authors thought pattern
• Practice (p. 352-353)

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Finding the implied main idea of paragraphs

• Implied main idea must not be too broad or too
  narrow
• Practice (p. 356-357)
• Writing summaries- summary sentence contains the
  topic and the authors controlling point
• Practice (p. 362)

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The implied central idea

• The main idea of several paragraphs is called the
  central idea
• When it is not stated, it is called the implied
  central idea
• Annotating helps- circle the topic, underline
  signal words for thought patterns
• Consider the graphics (p. 367-368)
• Practice (p. 370-372)