Main Idea and Supporting Details
Details
Facts, statistics, examples, stories, quotations, definitions, reasons, comparisons which support your main idea; details help make the main idea clear
Summarizing
Retelling the main ideas of a text in your own words.
supporting detail
a piece of information or example that supports the main idea
interesting detail
a piece of information that does not support the main idea
central idea
a term that means the same thing as main idea
conclusion
an ending or wrap-up for your writing
Supporting Details
information or facts that support or add more to the main idea
Quoting
states word for word from the text and uses quotation marks
Main Idea
the central or most important idea about a topic that the writer wants to communicate to readers.
subject
the topic of the text - usually one or two words at most
Plagarize
to copy the words or ideas of another and claim as your own
Paraphrasing
to rewrite a text in your own words
main idea
what the author wants the reader to know about the subject
Topic
what the story, passage or other text is about