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The Main (Idea) Event
I Need Some Support
What's the Point?
Transition-ing from Place to Place
Potpourri
100
The overall point the author is trying to make. It is also the idea that the writer wants us to know or believe.
What is the main idea?
100
These are specific facts, statistics, examples, steps, anecdotes, reasons, descriptions, definitions, etc. that explain or prove the general main idea stated in the topic sentence.
What are supporting details?
100
Every paragraph has one a main idea. Sometimes, the main idea is given to us. Sometimes, the main idea is not. This thing is suggested but not said.
What is implied main idea?
100
Words and phrases whose job is to show the relationships between thoughts and ideas. Comes from the Latin word trans ("across").
What are transitions?
100
These are located at the top of the page in a dictionary. They help us locate a particular word we are looking for.
What are guide words?
200
What is the instructor's favorite Major League Baseball team?
"The Boys in Blue"- The Chicago Cubs
200
There are two kinds of supporting details. One kind is essential and the reader must have this in order to understand the main idea. The other kind offers more explanation and is usually not critical to the reader's comprehension.
What are major and minor details?
200
We often form general ideas based on specific details when we look at these. They never state a main idea. We often find them in the Sunday newspaper.
What are cartoons and comic strips?
200
1. Some of them are synonyms (words that mean the same thing). Includes words like also, in addition to, and too ("interchangeable"). 2. Can be used in more than one pattern of organization. 3. Different ones of these can create subtle but significant changes in the different meanings of sentences.
What are the 3 characteristics of transitions?
200
Putting things together in new combinations. (Chapter 1)
What is synthesis?
300
Before we find the main idea, it is helpful to know these two words. One means "broad" and can refer to many things in a large category. The other word means "definite" and can refer to one certain something within a larger group.
What are general and specific details?
300
Please Please Me. A Hard Day's Night. St. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. The White Album. Abbey Road.
What are albums made by The Beatles?
300
1. Find the subject of each sentence. 2. Determine the type of supporting details in a paragraph. 3. Determine a general topic based on the specific details. 4. State an implied main idea that includes both the topic and what the author is saying about the topic.
What are the 4 steps for determining implied main idea?
300
This answer will require you to come up with 5 different types of these things in your question. 1. ________ transitions indicate the addition of another reason, example, type, or other point. 2. ________ transitions signal another event, step, or stage within a chronological order of details. 3._________ transitions indicate a reason for or a result of an occurrence presented in a previous paragraph. 4. _________ transitions point out similarities, and _________ transitions point out differences.
What are series, time order, cause/effect, comparison, and contrast transitions?
300
Nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, conjunctions, propositions and interjections. (From World of Words)
What are parts of speech?
400
The person, place, thing, event, or idea that the passage is about. It is usually expressed in just a word or brief phrase.
What is the topic?
400
These help readers recognize the general and specific relationships between sentences in a paragraph. Paragraphs usually include these things.
What are transitions? (also talked about in Chapter 5)
400
A visual aid that has boxes, circles, or other shapes. It can also have lines or arrows. This thing represents the sequence of steps or stages in a process.
What is a flow chart?
400
This type of transition is used any time authors want to illustrate an idea or make it clearer. Includes words such as: for example, such as, in one case, and to illustrate.
What are definition transition words?
400
Interacting with the text. Marking key words or ideas. Jotting down notes in the margins. Consciously trying to connect the text's information to one's own experiences. (Found in Chapter 1).
What is active reading?
500
This is the single statement that presents the main point/idea in a paragraph. This can also sometimes be found first, in the middle, and last.
What is the topic sentence?
500
This is a technique that involves using lines, boxes, circles, or other shapes to show how sentences in a paragraph relate to one another.
What is mapping?
500
"S", "Q", and "R" three times.
What is the SQ3R (Survey, Question, Read, Recite, and Review) active reading technique?
500
In 1901, Abraham Lincoln's tomb was being renovated. Some disbelievers didn't believe Lincoln's body was in the tomb. It was decided that individuals would be allowed to see Lincoln's body. This is the number of people who were able to view Lincoln's body at that time.
What is 23?
500
They often include other words and phrases to help us understand a new or unfamiliar word. They are "built into" sentences around the difficult word.
What are context clues?