Small Strategy Group—Identifying the Main Idea
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Identifying and understanding main ideas along with determining importance are prerequisite skills to summarizing text. Readers summarize the most important aspects of the text by determining the details that are significant and discard those that are not while stating the main idea in their own words. Observe how Hollie teaches this strategy to a small group of three students in a brief, six-minute lesson.