Tell students to draw illustrations in their flip books to go with each detail and the main idea.

What is the main idea of the text how pixar tells a story. Then tell me what the main idea of the story is. A main idea is a statement that sums up the general theme of the passage. This statement should be a lean sentence or two.

Every paragraph also contains a main idea. Students need to identify the most relevant information from the work and use it to develop a statement that expresses what they perceive the main idea to be. The main idea of this lesson is that the main idea of a story is the most important thing a reader is.

To find the main idea first read the paragraph or story and ask what the selection is about. In the concluding sentences of a paragraph. The main idea ties all of the sentences in the paragraph or article together.

It is the main point the author wishes to make. A main idea is the idea the story revolves around. Students learn to scan a text for the main idea because it can be found in or near the topic sentence at the end as part of a concluding statement or implied through details and evidence.

In an open-ended question they consider in. Finding the main idea is a key to understanding what you read. Incorrect answers on the reading test will often show supporting details from the.

Attention is the key to pulling the main idea from a text whatever the genre. The rest of the reading is the evidence provided to support that main idea. Within 4-8 words kids can summarize the gist of a story or text.