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Recognizing the Main Idea

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Understanding that paragraphs have a main idea expressed in a topic sentence, followed by supporting details in the subsequent sentences is the focus of this presentation. Students practice by reading short paragraphs in 10 slides, and clicking on the sentence that states the main idea.

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main ideas, central ideas, supporting details, paragraph writing, paragraphs

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main idea, main idea & details, paragraph writing, english language arts
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Resource Details

Grade
2nd - 4th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Resource Type
Presentations
Audience
For Teacher Use
Number of Slides
16

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Finding the Main Idea

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