Main Idea and Supporting Details - By ProgressiveBridges
Transcript
| 00:0-1 | welcome to this video about finding the main idea and | |
| 00:03 | supporting details in a paragraph . Let's take a look | |
| 00:06 | at an example together . Can you find the main | |
| 00:10 | idea and supporting details in this paragraph ? Let's read | |
| 00:13 | together . There are many kinds of people in the | |
| 00:16 | world . Some people are givers . They tend to | |
| 00:19 | give freely of themselves to others without expecting anything in | |
| 00:23 | return . A second group of people are takers . | |
| 00:27 | They often view people as valuable based on how they | |
| 00:30 | can benefit or take from the relationship . Many times | |
| 00:33 | these people take what they don't even need . The | |
| 00:37 | first thing we want to do is ask yourself the | |
| 00:39 | two main idea questions . First of all , what | |
| 00:43 | is this paragraph mostly about , which will give us | |
| 00:45 | the topic of the paragraph . And secondly , what | |
| 00:48 | is the authors ? Point about the topic . This | |
| 00:52 | will give us the main idea of the paragraph . | |
| 00:57 | What is this paragraph mostly about ? Can you find | |
| 01:00 | the topic if you guessed people , you are exactly | |
| 01:09 | correct . This paragraph is all about different kinds of | |
| 01:12 | people . What is the authors point about ? People | |
| 01:19 | see if you can find the main idea in the | |
| 01:21 | paragraph . If you decided on . There are many | |
| 01:28 | kinds of people in the world . You are correct | |
| 01:34 | . What are the two major details that support this | |
| 01:37 | main idea ? Look carefully . We're looking for major | |
| 01:42 | details that again support the main idea that there are | |
| 01:45 | many kinds of people in the world . So probably | |
| 01:48 | we're looking for two different types of people since we're | |
| 01:52 | looking for two major details . If you decided on | |
| 01:58 | some people are givers and a second group of people | |
| 02:01 | are takers . You are correct . What are the | |
| 02:07 | three minor details that support these major details ? Remember | |
| 02:12 | that minor details give more information about the major details | |
| 02:16 | they support . If you decided on those sentences in | |
| 02:25 | green , you are correct . Now you can see | |
| 02:28 | that we have actually identified every single part of this | |
| 02:31 | paragraph . And if you can do that , you | |
| 02:33 | definitely understand Main idea and supporting details . |
Summarizer
DESCRIPTION:
This is a tutorial on finding the main idea and supporting details in a paragraph. The teacher in the video analyzes a paragraph for its main idea and supporting details
OVERVIEW:
Main Idea and Supporting Details is a free educational video by ProgressiveBridges.It helps students in grades 4 practice the following standards RI.4.2.
This page not only allows students and teachers view Main Idea and Supporting Details but also find engaging Sample Questions, Apps, Pins, Worksheets, Books related to the following topics.
1. RI.4.2 : Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text..
GRADES:
4
STANDARDS:
RI.4.2
