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REA 0002

REA 0002. Chapter 3 Supporting Details. Supporting Details. What are they? The reasons, examples, facts, steps, or other kind of evidence that explain the main idea. Page 93 – read the paragraph about the penny. What are the three major details?.

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REA 0002

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  1. REA 0002 Chapter 3 Supporting Details

  2. Supporting Details • What are they? • The reasons, examples, facts, steps, or other kind of evidence that explain the main idea. • Page 93 – read the paragraph about the penny. • What are the three major details?

  3. Main Idea – But there are now good reasons for our government to phase the penny out of the economy. • Supporting Detail 1: Pennies take up more space than they are worth. • Supporting Detail 2: Pennies are a nuisance to the business community. • Supporting Detail 3: Pennies cost the nation as a whole.

  4. What do supporting details do? • They give specific information that explains more about the main idea. • How does it help you to be able to recognize these supporting details? • Can find the important details in the story.

  5. Major and Minor Details • Major details are ones that explain and develop the main idea. • Minor details are ones that fill out and give more information about the major details. • Page 95 – T V violence again.

  6. Outlining • Outlining is a way to organize your thoughts. • I. Main Idea • Major detail • Minor detail • Minor detail • Major detail • Minor detail • Minor detail • Major detail

  7. Clues to help you find the list of details. • Look for words that tell you a list of details is coming. (We saw these before!) • Page 96 - Just some examples: • Several kinds of four steps a few reasons • Among the results a series of three factors • Several advantages various causes • A number of

  8. Another Clue • Look for words that signal major details. • These are the addition words! • We have seen these before too. Page 97 • Practice 1 - p. 98

  9. The Outline • Main Idea: A few important approaches will prevent illness among the poor. • Major Detail 1: Focus on preventive health services. • Major Detail 2: Offer more extensive prenatal care. • Major Detail 3: Fight social conditions of poverty that breed disease. • B. The crowd…. P 99

  10. Another way to use details • Mapping – visual outlines that show relationships between main ideas and supporting details. • Practice – p 100 – Check Your Understanding

  11. And Yet One More! • Summarizing – Reducing a large amount of information into its most important points. • Could be main idea and supporting details. • Could be just the key terms (when taking notes) often followed by an example. • Practice 4 - p. 106 - A

  12. Chapter Review • Major and minor details provide the added information you need to make sense of a main idea. • List words and addition words can help you to find major and minor supporting details. • Outlining, mapping and summarizing are useful note-taking strategies.

  13. More Review • Outlines show the relationship between the main idea, major details, and minor details of a passage. • Maps are very visual outlines. • Writing a definition and summarizing an example is a good way to take notes on a new term.

  14. Group Practice • Review Test 1 (108-109) • Review Test 2 (109-110) • Home work • Review Test 4

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