finding the main idea and supporting details 3rd grade

... idea of the whole passage b It’s the main idea of paragraph c It’s a supporting idea for the main idea of the whole passage d It’s a supporting idea for paragraph In the passage, what is the sentence ... major supporting idea Look at it this way: I Overall main idea (thesis) A Major Supporting Idea (directly supports thesis) Minor supporting idea (supports idea A) Minor supporting idea (supports idea ... Minor supporting idea (supports idea A) B Major Supporting Idea (directly supports thesis) Minor supporting idea (supports idea B) Minor supporting idea (supports idea B) Minor supporting idea...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 17:20

... of the following best summarizes the statement’s main idea? a There are too many thefts in the garage b There are not enough security guards c There is something wrong with the security in the ... find main ideas even when they’re not explicitly stated The correct answer is c, “There is something wrong with the security in the parking garage.” How can you tell that this is the main idea? ... – FINDING THE IMPLIED MAIN IDEA – How to Find an Implied Main Idea Answer Finding an implied main idea requires you to use your observations to make...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 17:20

... centre, and forward—to the wing) and installs the main landing gear First, the wing is attached to the cen- Figure 2.1—Final Assembly and Checkout Airframe FACO and Airframe MR&U 15 tre fuselage, then ... UK site, thereby affecting the overhead rate for the other programmes The total effect of the decision to move JSF FACO to the UK needs to incorporate all of these costs and not simply the cost ... that the transfer of the technology had been approved Therefore, the transfer process must be completed by the latter part of 2007 at the latest The process is complex, and the complexity makes the...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 21:20

... than there are in their own brains Teams come to find that there are more ideas in the room than there are at their tables, and stil more in the building, in the city, and beyond They discover the ... look no further than the Google icons on their desktops and the iPods in their pockets The employees that Google and Apple most value are the ones who understand they’re working in an idea- intensive ... because they take pleasure in the Hunt Many of them keep notebooks where they record what they’ve seen and heard, and they connect their personal experiences and impressions to their projects and...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 23:18

... structure are found at the end of strand D and the beginning of strand E, i.e a further loss in D and a stabilization in E of the local b-structure geometry Compared with wt b2m, the cK58-b2m molecule ... i.e at the opened loop D–E, and at the start of strand E [15] Interestingly, similar deviations are also found in fragment 26–35, i.e at the end of strand B and at loop B–C, which faces the D–E ... [15,18] and requires the checking and redetermination of most of the resonance assignments of the molecule under investigation according to the standard methodology, i.e going through scalar and...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 11:20

... mothers of children with ALL were more accurate in their reporting of medication use than the control mothers Since mothers are asked in these studies to recall their use of medication and other ... equivalent to testing the hypothesis that the slope of the line in the above equation is equal to zero The latter hypothesis is tested using the t distribution of m/SEm with the number of degrees ... condition and that the condition rather than the medication confers the risk Epidemiologists would say that the condition is a confounder of the observed association between the medication and cancer...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 01:20

... circumstance and have a chance at peace only if we face and then disarm the psychic monsters planted in our minds long ago That’s the Freudian stance The second approach, the cognitive, maintains that the ... most, and the events of the past are just that—in the past and gone forever unless we insist on swirling them back into the present moment The cognitive approach is more practical than the Freudian ... world these guys worked together in an office One predicted the total messages would be 150, another, 250 The young man on the receiving end of the jest was robust and confident He smiled at the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/07/2014, 22:38

... words you come across today and the rest of the week Instead of looking them up in a dictionary, try to figure out the meanings of these words from their context Then, look them up in a dictionary ... but the context tells us that this word has something to with eating Read the following passages and determine the meaning of the words from their context The answers appear immediately after the ... 40 – THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FACT AND OPINION – Practice Answers Fact Opinion Opinion Fact Opinion Try these questions on the following statements Read them carefully, and then write F in the blank...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22

... sentences and how they express an assertion about the subject of the paragraph You saw how the main idea must be general enough to encompass all other sentences in the paragraph; it is the thought ... the paragraph, and the other sentences work to support that main idea Lesson 3: Determine the meaning of words from context You practiced looking for clues to determine meaning in the words and ... 1: Find the facts in what you read You practiced looking for the basic information that was being conveyed in the paragraphs: the who, what, when, where, and how Lesson 2: Find the main idea You...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22

... world of rock and roll Some consider Johnson the father of modern rock: His influence extends to artists from Muddy Waters to Led Zeppelin, from the Rolling Stones to the Allman Brothers Band Eric ... writing—how the sentences and ideas are arranged is entirely up to the writer However, most architects and most writers—generally follow certain patterns, not because they can’t think on their own, ... ALL TOGETHER – Practice Passage Try one more paragraph to conclude this first section Once again, mark up the paragraph carefully and then answer the questions that follow Robert Johnson is the best...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22

... Take the ten different events that make up the story and rearrange them so that they are in chronological order Here’s the order of events as they are presented in the story ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ The ... story Some stories start in the middle and flash backward to the beginning; a few start at the end and tell the story in reverse But most of the time, stories start at the beginning Writers often ... the use of transitional words and phrases, which signal a shift from one idea to the next Here is the same paragraph with the transitional words underlined: Practice with Transitional Words and...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22

... down to the lowest ranking worker Or, vice versa, the architect may choose for you to meet the least important employee first, the one with the least power in the company Then the next, and the next, ... would lay the rooms out like so: When you walk in the front door, the first room you encounter would be the president’s office, then the vice president’s, then the assistant vice president’s, and so ... happened over the weekend, for example, think about it in the order it happened: First , then _, suddenly, , and so on As you read about events in the newspaper or in other places, put the different...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22

... improve your vocabulary and increase your reading speed Main Idea By the way, what is the main idea of the two paragraphs above? Do you see a topic sentence? Write the main idea of the paragraphs in ... catch their attention Or you may want to save your best idea for last so that your readers get through all the other ideas first and build up to the most important You might present the ideas ... by saying the most important thing,” you know that the writer will be starting with the most important idea and ending with the least important The second best thing, therefore, is the second...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22

... nurture the plants in their gardens They pull weeds and prune them to encourage them to grow They feed them and apply insecticides They watch them flower and then witness their demise Did you find the ... plants the same Their bent, wilted “body” in the same way in a like manner and also These words and phrases show difference: but on the other hand however conversely 69 yet on the contrary nevertheless ... children still maintain a vital role in the family unit Finding the Main Idea Now that you’ve answered those questions, consider one more Read the previous passage again, and then answer this...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22

... A Look at Cause and Effect LESSON SUMMARY “One thing leads to another”—that’s the principle behind cause and effect Understanding cause and effect, and the relationship between them, will make ... Cause and Effect Are Interrelated Notice how the signal words listed on the previous page are used in the following paragraph Underline the signal words as you come across them Cause 1: Ed’s father ... read following the sentences You’ll see that cause and effect work together; you can’t have one without the other That’s why it’s very important to be able to distinguish between the two See if...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22

... importance (most important idea to least important idea) Lesson 8: Compare and contrast Ideas are arranged so that parallel aspects of item A and item B are compared and contrasted either in block style ... renovation on the side of the train station where the concession is located Town regulations will now close the station at p.m., which will decrease commuter traffic significantly The proprietor of the ... or other employee How will these changes affect the work place? Your job in particular? Or forecast the effect of changes that are coming For example, how will the upcoming layoffs affect the...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22

... moves downward to the second and third most important changes The sentence that expresses the main idea of all four paragraphs is the second sentence in the first paragraph: “These changes make ... most important idea and end with the least important, or vice versa, start with the least important idea and end with the most important Finally, put it all together in a paragraph in the space provided ... debatable There may be some things about the old procedure that we don’t know Perhaps, for example, they opened the job to both in-house employees and the general public at the same time, but they...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 00:22

... experiments and contributed to the design and analysis of the study , EK, TH, RT and AS participated in the design and analysis of the study and helped to draft the manuscript All authors read and approved ... be mainly mast cells in one study.[9] However, the other study identified them as being mainly neutrophils and neutrophil precursors in synovium of the facet joints.[17] Because we found the ... in the joint, thereby releasing IL-17 that contributes to the inflammatory milieu present in the inflamed synovium However, there was no difference in the expression of IL-17 between ACPA+ and...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20