Warm-Up

Correct these sentences1. would you like bread with your salad2. does you needs help with hanging the

bicycle tireSingular or plural noun?3. Dolphin4. ChildrenWhich word is not spelled correctly?5. daisy egg loop lern

Objective:Identify main idea and supporting

details.

What is the main idea?

Main Idea is what the whole topic is about.

What are supporting details?

Supporting details are ideas about the main idea. They support the topic.

RULE!!!!

Almost always the main idea will be in the first or last sentence. All the other sentences are the supporting details!!!

Example with categories

Baseball

Football

Sports

Hockey

Examples with Categories

Cats

Animals

Dogs

Lizards

What is the main idea?

Red

Blue

Black

Colors

What is the main idea?

Zoo

Places

Mall

Disneyland

What is the main idea?

Ruler, Desk, Chalkboard, Pencil

a. Items in a desk

b. Items in a bathroom

c. Items in a kitchen

d. Items in a classroom

What is a detail?

Fruit, apple, _______, pineapple

a. Orange

b. Potato

c. Carrots

d. Pencil

What is the detail?

Bodies of Water, _______, lake, river

a. Mountain

b. Ocean

c. Valley

d. Indians

What is the main Idea?

Read pg. 75 in the story.

a. It is hard to know how many dollars are lost in one day.

b. It’s easy to drop a dollar because it weighs so little

c. About 490 one-dollar bills make a pound.

What is the main idea?

Read pg. 77

a. The front of every dollar has a long number in green ink, which appears in two different places.

b. No two dollars have the same serial number.

c. These bills are called star notes.

What is a supporting detail?

Read pg. 79

a. If dollars are in water a short time, they usually aren’t damaged.

b. This is because dollars are printed on especially strong paper made of cotton, linen, and silk.

c. They can’t be ripped easily either.

Closure

What is the main idea in a paragraph?

What is a supporting detail?