This is the most important reading strategy you will ever learn
ž The main idea is the key thought or idea in a reading passage.
ž It’s what the author wants you to understand and remember most.
Finding Main Ideas in Passages
l The main idea of a passage is the thought that is present from the beginning to the end.
l In finding the main idea, ask yourself these:
– What idea is common to most of the text?
– What is the idea that relates the parts to the whole?
– What opinion do all the parts support?
Finding Main Ideas
Paragraphs usually have 2 types of sentences:
l ------a topic sentence, which contains the main idea, and
l ------one or more detail sentences which support, prove, provide more information, explain, or give examples.
After Miss Zue explained this to us,she gave a exercise that is pairing up a group consisting of 4
people..The exercise are we were watching a video.After that,we must find the main idea for that video..Interesting right?.Let me show one of the video and hope you all find the main idea for this video ..
What is the main idea?did you find the right main idea.Let me show the answer...
There are many tricks of cockroaches to impose ogy..
That is a main idea for this video..simple right the answer..
I hope I have given you all a good knowledge to improve our reading skills..
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