Main Idea

If the author is repeating some other words, then obviously they are important.

Words like: the, and, an, because, are, is, if, etc. are not key words

Used

Word

Times

Who

What

Where

Why

When

*You won’t always be able to identify all of the 5 W’s in a passage

One thing we've been struggling with is writing the main idea sentence, so we're going to practice.

When writing a main idea sentence, you will have to add extra words to make the sentence make sense.

Extra words could be: it, and, the, because

Example

Example