All About Central Idea
The definition of a Central Idea
What is the main point of the text, story, or paragraph?
Every Central Idea should have this to back it up.
What are supporting details or evidence?
To talk down to another.
Today's youth are the ___________
What is future
A detailed examination of an element or structure of a text.
What is analysis
The Central Idea of the American Day Address.
What is the “spirit of liberty” lies within all who have the courage to seek it?
What was the author's purpose of "I Am An American Dream?"
To Inspire
The academic definition of Explicit.
What is information that is directly stated in the text?
The character "Scout" is in what movie?
What is To Kill a Mocking Bird
What is an educated guess based on implied information?
The definition of Inference.
The Central Idea of "The Cost of Prison in Dollars and Lives"
Treating juvenile offenders as adults has been ineffective, wasteful, and unresponsive to what is known about adolescent brain development.
What is the supporting detail of the following passage: Kangaroos protect themselves in many ways. If a kangaroo senses danger, they will bang their tail on the ground to warn the others. A newborn joey is only the size of your thumb.
What is if a kangaroo senses danger, they will bang their tail on the ground to warn the others?
What is connotative.
Tips to find the Central Idea.
What is scanning the first and last sentence? What is listing the topics of each paragraph? What is reviewing the title?
New ideas showing creativity and originality...
What is innovative?
Provide the central idea of the following paragraph. Maria is watching too much television. A toddler shouldn’t be spending copious amounts of hours staring blankly at a screen. Worse yet, some of her wild behavior has been inspired by those awful cartoons she watches. We need to spend more time reading books with her and pull the plug on the TV! A baby needs more attention than just keeping them occupied and quiet.
What is Watching too much TV is not good for Maria or for toddlers?
Pick out the supporting details of the passage below:
My American roommate was shocked by me. She asked where I had learned to speak English so well and was confused when I said that Nigeria happened to have English as its official language. She asked if she could listen to what she called my “tribal music,” and was consequently very disappointed when I produced my tape of Mariah Carey. My roommate had a single story of Africa: a single story of catastrophe.
What is she asked where I learned to speak English so well? She asked if she could listen to my tribal music?
Not able to be understood is
Incomprehensible
The meaning of tone.
What is the overall feel of a text, the emotions the author is trying to evoke from the reader?
A generalized belief about a group of people.
What is stereotype.
Usually, an objective summary is a short passage that contains key information about the text, the central idea, and supporting details. List the three categories needed to complete the objective summary chart.
What is TAG? (Title, Author, Genre), Verb, and Central Idea?
Pick out the supporting details in the passage below:
Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person. The Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti writes that if you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story and to start with, “secondly.” Start the story with the arrows of the Native Americans, and not with the arrival of the British, and you have an entirely different story. Start the story with the failure of the African state, and not with the colonial creation of the African state, and you have an entirely different story.
What is start the story with the arrows of the Native Americans, and not with the arrival of the British? And Start the story with the failure of the African state, and not with the colonial creation of the African state?
What is abject
Explain in your own words what it means to develop a central idea over the course of the text.
What is provide supporting details or talk about closely related topics that back up the central idea?
To assign a word as positive, negative, or neutral.
What is to determine the connotative meaning.