Finding the Main Idea

What’s the Point?: Finding the BIG Ideas in Text Presented By Angela Maiers, 2006 ©Angela Maiers, 2006

What is the BIG IDEA?? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Harvard Report Dr. Perry, Director of the Harvard Reading and Study Center ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Thinking Like a Writer!! ,[object Object],©Angela Maiers, 2006

Authors Decisions ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Today’s Goals and Agenda: ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Why it is so hard to find? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],©Angela Maiers, 2006

Parts of a Paragraph ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],©Angela Maiers, 2006

Main Ideas can be… ,[object Object],[object Object]

Four Steps to Discovering the Main Idea ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

L6: Topic Sentence ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

What is the Main Idea? ,[object Object],[object Object],©Angela Maiers, 2006

Defining Central Idea/Thesis ,[object Object],[object Object],©Angela Maiers, 2006

Ten Lessons to Support Reading for the Big Idea!!! ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

L1: Defining Main Idea ,[object Object],[object Object],©Angela Maiers, 2006

L2: Topic, Main Idea, or Supporting Detail? ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],©Angela Maiers, 2006

L3: Identify the TOPIC ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

L4: Sorting for Importance in the Details

L5: Knowledge of Text Structure ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

L7: Implied MI ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],©Angela Maiers, 2006

L8: Formulating Implied MI ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],©Angela Maiers, 2006

L9: Monitoring the Inference ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],©Angela Maiers, 2006

©Angela Maiers, 2006 Universal understandings that authors write about in their stories or poems growing up jealousy making friends success fear siblings romance trickery failure change overcoming injustice power arrogance death superficial love courage acceptance selfishness being ordinary moving on family relationships (beginning, ending, trials within) wealth The TOPIC in literature and poetry is a THEME

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