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PSAE Days 1 and 2 Main Ideas and Supporting Details

I can understand the differences between main ideas and supporting details and identify them in a passage. PSAE Days 1 and 2 Main Ideas and Supporting Details. Definitions. Main Idea Controlling Idea Topic or subject that the passage as a whole is about

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PSAE Days 1 and 2 Main Ideas and Supporting Details

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  1. I can understand the differences between main ideas and supporting details and identify them in a passage PSAE Days 1 and 2 Main Ideas and Supporting Details

  2. Definitions • Main Idea • Controlling Idea • Topic or subject that the passage as a whole is about • Sometimes, it is clearly in the beginning or the end • Sometimes, it is implied • Supporting Details • Facts, reasons, or examples that describe or explain the main idea • Author often includes BOTH important and less-important details

  3. Practice • Star-nosed moles live underground, in parts of the United States and Canada. Although blind, they do have small eyes that are covered with flaps of skin. They also have a distinctive star-shaped protrusion on the top of their heads, giving them their “star-nosed” name. Star-nosed moles burrow through the earth in search of earthworms, their primary food. They produce a toxin that stuns and paralyzes the earthworm. This way, they can save the worms for future consumption/ • What is the main idea?

  4. Practice: ANSWER • The maid idea is that the star-nosed moles are small animals that lie underground and eat earthworms. • Everything else? Supporting details!

  5. Tips • After you read, ask yourself what the passage, article, or story was about. • Try to sum up your answer in one sentence. Your answer will be close to the author’s controlling idea. • Do not confuse a detail from a passage with the main idea. • Supporting details are there to add extra support or extra information ABOUT the main idea…or to prove a point raised by the main idea. • Avoid EXTRANEOUS DETAIL • Irrelevant detail. Does not constiture a vital part of the text and does not directly support the main idea.

  6. More Practice: Passage 1 • Look at passage 1 on your worksheet. • Read it and create a main idea.

  7. More Practice: Passage 1 • HINT: Even though the passage begins by making a statement about tennis, the subject of tennis is not the main idea. • POTENTIAL ANSWER: • There are many similarities between tennis and badminton except badminton uses birdies instead of balls.

  8. More Practice: Passage 2 • Answer the questions that accompany the passage. • HINT: Decide how to summarize the most important material in one sentence. • HINT: Decide which detail could be removed from the paragraph if necessary.

  9. Passage 2: Answers • 1: C • 2: D

  10. PSAE Practice • NOT TIMED • Answer WHILE READING questions on a separate sheet of paper. • Circle the answers for the AFTER READING section on your sheet AND write the answers on the same paper as the WHILE READING questions.

  11. ANSWERS: • 1: A • 2: B • 3: D • 4: B • 5: • Benefits of the pygmy hog • Specifics people can do to help • Anecdotal stories about the pygmy hog

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