Identifying Main Ideas
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Created on October 1, 2023
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Transcript
Identifying
MAIN IDEAS
Most important idea
Strategies
Can appear anywhere
Topic
Support the idea with deatils
Claim
The main idea is the most important idea that witter expresses in a paragraph
Such as examples, facts, numbers, and reasons
It most ofter apperars in the opening one or two sentences, sometimes the reader must infer by reading the whole paragraph
- Ask yourself: what is the claim and topic?
- Ask yourself if the information in the sentence supports the main idea
- Writers often repeat the main idea in the last sentence of the paragraph
What does the writter make about the topic?
General subject