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Main Idea and Details

  • Grade 2
  • English Language Arts
  • 47 s
  • British Columbia
  • BC2-EN-08

Children read a four-sentence text about water and find what it is mostly about: the main idea, which becomes the top of a table. The other three sentences are counted as details that tell more, and they become the table legs that hold the main idea up.

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In one sentence

The question this lesson answers

Let's read a little text together.

We use water every day.

Transcript

What the lesson says

Let's read a little text together.

We use water every day.

We drink it.

We wash with it.

We water plants.

What is this text mostly about?

It is mostly about how we use water.

This big idea is called the main idea.

The other sentences tell more about the main idea.

They are details. One, we drink. Two, we wash. Three, we water plants.

Details hold up the main idea, like table legs.

The main idea is the big idea. Details tell more about it.

Curriculum

Where this fits

British Columbia, Grade 2

English Language Arts, Strategies and processes: reading strategiesBC2-EN-08

Previous: Sounding Out a New WordNext: Revising and Editing: Make It Better, Then Fix It

British Columbia, Grade 3

English Language Arts, Strategies and processes: reading strategiesBC3-EN-10

Previous: Predict, Then Read On: Mia's KiteNext: Does It Make Sense? Checking as You Read

This lesson is also listed in Grade 3.

The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.

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