Supporting Details

📖Story Brief #14

Supporting details are facts or examples that support the main idea.

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Read deep — not just the surface.

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If you can't point to it on the page, it's a guess.

What You'll Learn

Supporting details are facts or examples that support the main idea. Supporting details support the main idea. They give facts and examples.

Supporting details support the main idea.

They give facts and examples.

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What are supporting details?

How sure are you going to be?😐 maybe

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Try this in real life this week.

Read a paragraph from a book and tell someone the main idea.

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“What was the main idea of what you read today?”

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Send it to a parent or fellow reader. 5 minutes is all it takes.

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