Video: Main Ideas and Supporting Details

Main Ideas

This video draws a helpful distinction between main ideas and supporting details, to show the connection between the topic sentence of a paragraph and other contents in the same paragraph.

 

Supporting Details

To dive in more deeply to the concept of supporting details, view the following video.  It describes the techniques of outlining and mapping a paragraph for greater understanding.

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