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Main Idea

Learn how to effectively read and extract main ideas from textbooks, take notes, and complete homework tasks more efficiently. Improve your understanding of major versus minor details and develop skills such as bubble mapping, annotating, and outlining. Discover how to determine main ideas and identify supporting details, both stated and implied.

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Main Idea

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  1. Main Idea * Major Details* Minor Details

  2. What can I expect to be able to do? • Read a textbook page in your social studies or science book and be able to pull out what matters. • Take notes without teachers spoon-feeding you information. • Take a long article or something with many paragraphs and see “major ideas” vs. “minor ideas.” • Increase how effectively and swiftly you can complete homework tasks for classes that require textbook reading.

  3. Bubble mapping or webbing • Annotating • Notetaking/outlining

  4. How Do I begin? • Determining how supporting details build up to a main idea. TWO BIG QUESTIONS-- • Which details are main and which are minor? • Is the main idea STATED or IMPLIED?

  5. Major vs. minor details Major Details • explain the main idea. • are more specific than the main idea. • provide the examples, reasons, statistics and studies that help make the main idea clear and convincing. • answer readers’ questions about the main idea. Minor Details • explain a major detail. • are even more specific than major details. • repeat key points and add colorful detail. • may or may not be important enough to include in reading notes.

  6. Main Idea: Neighborhood watch programs are good for everyone (in the following ways). • Major: Neighborhood watches unite neighbors in a common goal. • Minor: Neighbors work together to protect each other. • Minor: One family’s security becomes everyone’s concern. • Major: Neighborhood watches reduce crime. • Minor: Posted signs act as deterrents to criminals. • Minor: Neighbors are more likely to report suspicious persons or activities. • Major: Watch programs keep neighbors alert. • Minor: Because neighbors meet regularly, they are more aware of events, rules, or changes in the community.

  7. Neighborhood watch Programs are beneficial

  8. Aaron is a famous extreme athlete

  9. Outline version • I Aaron = Extreme Athlete A) Hardcore sitting 1) in a wheelchair 2) similar to skateboarding 3) can drift, grind, carve, & hand-plant B) First to backflip in a wheelchair 1) Guiness Book … Recs. 2) loves what he does

  10. Some red food dye comes from the cochineal beetle

  11. “STATED” Main idea = topic sentence (“ImPLIED” TO COME TOMORROW!) • May be first, in the middle, or last • Usually first so that the reader can focus as they read. • Everything else “fits under it” or “rolls around it”

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