2nd grade Unit 2 Reading - Main Idea
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11 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 topic | the subject one is reading, talking or writing about |
| topic sentence | a sentence that states the main thought of a paragraph or of a larger unit of discourse and is usually placed at or near the beginning |
| main idea | what a story is mostly about |
| detail | a small part of a whole |
| supporting details | parts of a story that support the main idea of the story |
| summary | a brief account of something that contains the main points |
| summarize | to tell in or reduce to a summary |
| retell | to tell again |
| explicit | perfectly clear in meaning |
| infer | to derive as a conclusion from facts (to come to a conclusion) |
| implicit | capable of being understood from something else though unexpressed |
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