Distinguishing between main idea and supporting detail
Main idea
is general idea
ideas that apply to a large number of individual items
Practise distingushing between general and specific ideas
Create a bubble map
EXAMPLE:- Mother gorillas do a lot for their babies. They nurse their babies. They protect them from danger. And they teach the tiny gorillas how to get along with other gorillas.
MAIN IDEA: mother gorillas have their babies.
SUPPORTING DETAILS :
1) Mother gorillas do a lot for the babies
2) They love their babies
3) They teach them many things
Supporting detail
is descride,expand and explain the main ideas
by telling how, when, why. how much or how many
include example, fact, statistics and so on.
How to find the supporting details that support main ideas?
the sentence in the paragraph
in the graphic
the caption that explain the graphics
vocabulary words