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Understanding Supporting Details in Writing

Learn to identify, outline, and differentiate major and minor supporting details in writing to strengthen your essays. Discover the importance of outlining and mapping for clear understanding and effective communication.

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Understanding Supporting Details in Writing

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  1. Day 19 English 10

  2. Warm Up: Identify all parts in Prompt 4 (AKA Embedded Assessment 2) (pg. 48) • Subject • Speaker • Type of Essay • Task • Hints • Identify all parts in Prompt 4 (AKA Embedded Assessment 2) (pg. 48) Grab a red book for today.

  3. SSR- No journal today!

  4. Ten Steps: Chapter 3 Supporting Details

  5. What are supporting details? • - Reasons, examples, facts, steps, or other kinds of evidence that explain a main idea

  6. A Paragraph With Strong Support • Read the paragraph at the top of page 104 in your Ten Steps book. Then, write the three supporting details below: • Supporting Detail #1: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ • Supporting Detail #2: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ • Supporting Detail #3: ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

  7. Understanding Major and Minor Details • There are two levels of supporting details: Major and Minor • Major Details: explain and develop the main idea • Minor Details: fill out and make clear the major details

  8. Outlining • Preparing an outline of a passage will help you understand and see clearly the relationship between a main idea and its supporting details • Outlines start with a main idea • Next comes major supporting details • If necessary, you might add in minor supporting details

  9. Outlining Tips • Look for words that tell you a list of details is coming. • LIST WORDS • Several kinds of various causes a few reasons a number of • A series of three factors four steps among the results • Several advantages

  10. More Outlining Tips • 2. Look for words that signal major details. • ADDITION WORDS • One first of all in additionAlso furthermore first • next last of allsecond another Moreover • finally

  11. More Outlining Tips • 3. When making an outline, put all supporting details of equal importance at the same distance from the left margin. • EXAMPLE OUTLINE: • Main Idea • Major Detail • Minor Detail • Minor Detail • Major Detail • Minor Detail • Minor Detail • Major Detail

  12. Mapping • Maps, or diagrams, are highly visual outlines in which circles, boxes, or other shapes show the relationships between main ideas and supporting details. • Each major detail is connected to the main idea. • Each minor detail is connected to a major detail.

  13. Example Map MAJOR DETAIL MAJOR DETAIL MAIN IDEA Minor Detail MinorDetail

  14. Practice time!

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