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Understanding Main Idea and Supporting Details as a Reading Strategy

Author: Rebecca Oberg

Main Ideas: The Basics

This informative slide show presentation gives learners not only definitions and examples of several key concepts related to main ideas, but also offers opportunities for practice and review.

Source: cmsweb1.lcps.org/50930820181545/lib/50930820181545/Main_Ideas_Ch_2.ppt, modified by Rebecca Oberg

Song: The Main Idea

This catchy song offers interesting examples of main ideas and supporting sentences.

Source: YouTube

Stated and Implied Main Ideas

This slide show presentation offers definitions and examples of stated and implied main ideas.

Source: Rebecca Oberg, McDougal Littell Reading Toolkit

Supporting Details: The Basics

This informative slide show presentation gives learners not only definitions and examples of several key concepts related to supporting details, but also offers opportunities for practice and review.

Source: cmsweb1.lcps.org/50930820181545/lib/50930820181545/Supporting_Details_Ch_3.ppt, modified by Rebecca Oberg

Practicing Paragraphs: Main Idea and Supporting Details

This slide show presentation offers learners a chance to really be inspired and practice their skills at creating paragraphs with strong main ideas and supporting details. Famous images from the Great Depression act as writing prompts for readers to practice this learning strategy.

Source: dstopsky.com/documents/.../GreatDepression/ImagesGreatDepression.ppt, modified by Rebecca Oberg

How to Write a Paragraph

This brief clip offers information on paragraph structure, which is intrinsically related to the concepts of main idea and supporting details.

Source: YouTube