1. Main Idea and Supporting Details
What’s the BIG IDEA?

2. Objectives: We will be able to…
Identify the main idea and supporting details in a text
Use a prewriting plan to develop a draft with main idea(s) and supporting details

3. Key Vocabulary Objective – our goal; what we are trying to do
Identify the main idea and supporting details in a text
Objective – our goal; what we are trying to do
Identify – to find out something
Main Idea – the central point of a piece of writing
Supporting Details – sentences that give more information about the main idea
Text – a piece of writing

4. Key Vocabulary Develop – to create and improve
Objective:
Use a prewriting plan to develop a draft with main idea(s) and supporting details
Develop – to create and improve
Prewriting plan – a plan of your ideas for a writing topic before you draft
Draft – a version of a piece of writing

5. Why is this important? Reading Writing
You know to look for a central point when reading
You understand what you’re reading
You find specific information in interesting text
You know what the author is trying to say
Writing
You deliver a clear message to your audience
You improve your writing with more detail

6. So what exactly is the Main Idea?
The central point the author is trying to make
The main topic the author is talking about
The big idea the author wants you to get
The main focus of a piece of writing

7. So what exactly is the Main Idea?
The main idea can be:
an opinion
an argument
a general idea
a topic of information
a theme
a lesson or message

8. So what exactly are supporting details?
Sentences that support the main idea
Give more information about the topic
Help explain and prove the author’s point

9. Water
Water can take many forms. Large bodies of water, like The Gulf of Mexico are the liquid form of water. Water can also be hard like a rock. When in its frozen form, water is ice like giant glaciers or ice cubes in a glass of water. Water vapor, like steam coming from a tea kettle, is the gas form of water. There is water vapor in clouds. Water can be liquid, solid, or a gas.

10. Main Idea
Water can take many forms.

11. Supporting Details
Large bodies of water, like The Gulf of Mexico are the liquid form of water.

12. Supporting Details
When in its frozen form, water is ice like giant glaciers or ice cubes in a glass of water.

13. Supporting Details
Water vapor, like steam coming from a tea kettle, is the gas form of water.

14. Main Idea
Water can be liquid, solid, or a gas.

15. Water
Water can take many forms. Large bodies of water, like The Gulf of Mexico are the liquid form of water. Water can also be hard like a rock. When in its frozen form, water is ice like giant glaciers or ice cubes in a glass of water. Water vapor, like steam coming from a tea kettle, is the gas form of water. There is water vapor in clouds. Water can be liquid, solid, or a gas.