Attention is the key to pulling the main idea from a text whatever the genre.

How to explain the main idea of a story. Was this book about a. If you were to write a one or two-sentence summary of a story you would be. It plays a vital role in our growth and development.

How about the supporting details. The term is highly abstract. Bike-park might be about riding their bike at a park.

Try to explain what main idea means without using the words main or idea. Give kids lots of this kind of practice. The main idea is the overall idea of the story which is communicated and understood through the plot and characters.

It gives the overarching idea of what the paragraph is about and is supported by the details in subsequent sentences in the paragraph. Short stories often have just one theme whereas novels usually have multiple themes. Characters setting plot and conflict along with theme.

For example they might say fell-playground and the story they are telling would be about an accident at recess. The theme of a story is woven all the way through the story and the characters actions interactions and motivations all reflect the storys theme. These slides give an example of how you would guide kids to identify the important ideas main idea and key supporting details deleting trivial and repetitive information and paraphrasing the key point main idea in a single sentence stated or written with the text out of sight.

Stories help to develop imagination by introducing new ideas into their world ideas about fantastical worlds other planets different points in time and invented characters. THE STATEMENT OF THE MAIN IDEA. What is the topic.