Finding the Main Idea
Grade 5•45 minutes
Learning Objective
I can pick out the main idea from a paragraph.
Practice Questions
This lesson includes 7 practice questions to reinforce learning.
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1. List three strategies the video suggests for finding the main idea of a text.
2. Explain how a topic sentence can help you identify the main idea of a paragraph.
3. Describe a situation where a text might not have a clear topic sentence or concluding sentence. How can you still determine the main idea in this case?
...and 4 more questions
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Main Idea | Summarising | Reading Strategies
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