Main Idea and Supporting Details

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Main Idea and Supporting Details

• Whats the BIG IDEA?

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Objectives

• We will be able to
• Identify the main idea and supporting details in
  a text
• Use a prewriting plan to develop a draft with
  main idea(s) and supporting details

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Key Vocabulary

• Objective
• Identify the main idea and supporting details in
  a text
• Objective our goal what we are trying to do
• Identify to find out something
• Main Idea the central point of a piece of
  writing
• Supporting Details sentences that give more
  information about the main idea
• Text a piece of writing

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Key Vocabulary

• Objective
• Use a prewriting plan to develop a draft with
  main idea(s) and supporting details
• Develop to create and improve
• Prewriting plan a plan of your ideas for a
  writing topic before you draft
• Draft a version of a piece of writing

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Why is this important?

• Reading
• You know to look for a central point when reading
• You understand what youre reading
• You find specific information in interesting text
• You know what the author is trying to say
• Writing
• You deliver a clear message to your audience
• You improve your writing with more detail

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So what exactly is the Main Idea?

• The central point the author is trying to make
• The main topic the author is talking about
• The big idea the author wants you to get
• The main focus of a piece of writing

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So what exactly is the Main Idea?

• The main idea can be
• an opinion
• an argument
• a general idea
• a topic of information
• a theme
• a lesson or message

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So what exactly are supporting details?

• Sentences that support the main idea
• Give more information about the topic
• Help explain and prove the authors point

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• Water
• Water can take many forms. Large bodies of
  water, like The Gulf of Mexico are the liquid
  form of water. Water can also be hard like a
  rock. When in its frozen form, water is ice like
  giant glaciers or ice cubes in a glass of water.
  Water vapor, like steam coming from a tea kettle,
  is the gas form of water. There is water vapor in
  clouds. Water can be liquid, solid, or a gas.

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Main Idea

• Water can take many forms.

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Supporting Details

• Large bodies of water, like The Gulf of Mexico
  are the liquid form of water.

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Supporting Details

• When in its frozen form, water is ice like giant
  glaciers or ice cubes in a glass of water.

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Supporting Details

• Water vapor, like steam coming from a tea
  kettle, is the gas form of water.

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Main Idea

• Water can be liquid, solid, or a gas.

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• Water
• Water can take many forms. Large bodies of
  water, like The Gulf of Mexico are the liquid
  form of water. Water can also be hard like a
  rock. When in its frozen form, water is ice like
  giant glaciers or ice cubes in a glass of water.
  Water vapor, like steam coming from a tea kettle,
  is the gas form of water. There is water vapor in
  clouds. Water can be liquid, solid, or a gas.