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You first have to look at the directions and find what category you should be searching, like “find the main idea on paragraph 1.” If it is multiple choice. Go to your searching category, reread it, and find the details that seem important to you. Important details grouped in a paragraph could be like, “Rosa Parks was asked to stand up for another white person to sit down.”, “She stayed in her seat. So she got arrested” and, “ she did not believe discrimination or unfair treatment, and the society was giving more power to white people.”

This shows that Rosa Parks was fighting for fairness and rights, even though she got arrested. You would find the answer closest to that if you had that text. If you had a different text than you would ignore the details that could be removed without really removing the purpose of the paragraph. You focus on the important details, and use that to find an answer. If it is response, then you type in your answer without trying to find the closest answer like you would with multiple choice. If you need to include the details, which most likely will, you put down the sentences that helped you find the main idea. If not and it is on response, still put them to be safe. That is how you find a main idea and support it.

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First look over the passage. Then find the topic. After that find important details to back up your topic. Finally using those details and the topic, turn it all into a sentence.

-main idea expert

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I first read over the passage. I look for all the most important details. All the details that aren’t as important are not needed to find the main idea and can sometimes lead you on the wrong track. Once I have important ideas, I take them and look for similarities. They should add up and give you a pretty good idea on what to do for your main idea.

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Another way I find the main idea is by looking for what the majority of the text is about. For example, if I was reading a passage about apples and seventy percent of it is about where apples are grown and thirty percent of it is about different kinds of apples, the main idea would be about where apples are grown.

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To find the main idea, I often think of what the topic is. Then I think of what the author is saying about that topic and what they are trying to tell the reader.

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First you read the text. While you read you need to check for the topic. After you read you can check the conclusion/introduction and see if you still think that what you thought is correct.

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I find main ideas by reading the questions first. This helps me find what I’m looking for in the passage. After that, I read the passage and find the main idea. Simple and easy.

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“You must know what you are looking for before hand and then search the text to find something that matches.”

“Use the title to your advantage and if you cannot, use the first sentence, as they are the leaders of the paragraph.”

In all seriousness, these are the top two strategies I use when finding main ideas. Also, “Use your strengths. If you can find the theme, you can find the main idea.”

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To find the main idea, I usually think about what the text is mostly about (the topic), then I try to think about what it is saying about that topic, then that becomes my main idea!

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To find the main idea I read the whole article and then I look over it and look for key words.after that i look at any bold words if there are any and see what they mean. Then if I have not found it I have not found it i read the whole passage slowly absorbing every little detail and then i have it

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When you find a main idea you have to find the topic. Sometimes you can tell what the topic is by the title of the article, other times you have to read to find the main idea. You also want to add details specific to the text.

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When I find the main idea of a passage, I start off by reading it. Then I find the most important parts. I also look at the title, as that would give me a general idea of what the passage was about. I’ll look through it again and find some details that will support my opinion. Finally, I’ll put in a a sentence.

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To find the main idea of a text, I first read through it. This helps me find my topic of the text. Then I go to the introduction and conclusion since normally it has good information that can contribute to the main idea. I also sometimes read through the text to find important information. Then I try to put the information together to find a main idea of the text.

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I found the main idea by putting together my knowledge of the title and the text, if the title dose’t put it all together for you, look in the text for supporting details.

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I read the whole thing first then I start taking pieces of the story that could possibly be the main idea. Then I found the story piece that is the most accurate one to the story.

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Main ideas can be found by finding the topic and then narrowing it down to what the book/movie is about. For example, if you had a book about sea lions, and it was talking about how they are different from seals, the main idea could be sea lions are different than seals, or it could be more complex.

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To find the main idea i find the topic and some details that are specific to what the text is about put them together and you have your main idea soup with a pinch of topic and a dash of details.

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To find the main idea i find the topic and some details that are specific to what the text is about put them together and you have your main idea soup with a pinch of topic and a dash of details.

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I first read on the text, then I find what the text is about. When I have found what it’s about I find the most important information about it in the text. Finally, I turn that information into a sentence about it. (The main idea.)

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I first read on the text, then I find what the text is about. When I have found what it’s about I find the most important information about it in the text. Finally, I turn that information into a sentence about it. (The main idea.)

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When finding the main idea of a nonfiction text, I first find the topic. This helps me get a base idea of what the text is talking about. I then find what the text mostly says about this topic. For example, the topic could be dogs and it mostly talks about dogs athletic life and needs. This is how I find the main idea in a nonfiction text.

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I find the main idea by looking at the title of the book/article, because it normally contains some important information. If I can’t find the main idea there, I scan the more important details and try to piece together a main idea.