Central Idea
The thing the author most wants you to know from the text.
What is central idea?
The two D's in RADD stand for this.
What is support with a Detail?
This is what editing writing means.
What is looking back at what you wrote to fix any errors?
The type of pet that your tutor has.
What is a cat?
The strategy we have been using to find central idea.
What is chunking?
The R in RADD stands for this.
What is Restate the question?
This is when I should edit my writing.
What is after writing anything that will be read by another person (friend, teacher, test grader)?
This team won the Super Bowl this year.
What is the Kansas City Chiefs?
What we do with gist statements (from sticky notes) to help find central idea.
What is look for connections?
Writers using RADD always include this in their Answer.
What is an inference?
I should edit my writing for this reason.
What is to help the reader understand what I wrote?
This game was released during the Golden Age of video games and features a "stubborn gorilla" character.
What is Donkey Kong?
Someplace you can look in the text for clues about central idea.
What is the title? OR
What is the heading? OR
What is the topic sentence
One mistake people sometimes make in two point responses.
What is not restating and answering with an inference? OR
What is not including 2 details? OR
What is using details that don't support the answer?
Someone editing this sentence would want to make this change:
my Favorite thing about break was Flying to the beach.
What is capitalization (capital letter at the beginning of the sentence, lower case letter "f")?
This is fuel to help the brain learn.
What is movement? OR
What is a healthy snack?
This is when readers should be using strategies to find central idea in a text.
What is anytime they're reading!
A RADD response for this prompt:
What would you like to be when you grow up?
What is (really good RADD response)?
It is so nice to see you
What is adding punctuation?
This is something I learned during tutoring.
What is (anything you learned)?