Main Idea What is main idea The main

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Main Idea

Main Idea

What is main idea? The main idea is the point a writer is trying

What is main idea? The main idea is the point a writer is trying to make about a subject. Learning about main ideas helps you decide what is important in a passage.

The main idea of a paragraph tells what the paragraph is about. All the

The main idea of a paragraph tells what the paragraph is about. All the other sentences are details or small parts that add to the main idea. Often the main idea sentence is the first or last sentence in a paragraph. You may sometimes find the main idea sentence in the middle of a paragraph.

Read this story and find the main idea. Little dogs usually live longer than

Read this story and find the main idea. Little dogs usually live longer than big dogs. The tiny Pekinese can live to be twenty years old. The medium-sized fox terrier can live to be sixteen years old. The giant Saint Bernard rarely lives as long as fourteen years.

If you chose the first sentence, “Little dogs usually live longer than big dogs,

If you chose the first sentence, “Little dogs usually live longer than big dogs, ” then you are correct! Sometimes a passage doesn’t have a main idea sentence. In this case, the main idea is implied. You can infer the main idea by reading all the details of the passage.

Read the passage and decide which sentence would be the best choice as the

Read the passage and decide which sentence would be the best choice as the main idea. Some monarch butterflies fly almost eighteen hundred miles from the northern U. S. to Mexico. As spring warms the air, the butterflies begin to return. But they do not live to see their home again. The butterflies lay their eggs, then die. The young return a. b. c. d. Butterflies lay their eggs in the spring and summer. Monarch butterflies take a long journey south each fall. Butterflies travel to Mexico. Butterflies die after they lay their eggs.

If you chose b. “Monarch butterflies take a long journey south each fall, ’’

If you chose b. “Monarch butterflies take a long journey south each fall, ’’ you are correct. You are ready to practice finding Main Idea!