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Topic Sentence |
Main Idea of a Paragraph |
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Central Idea |
Main Idea of a Paragraph made up two or more paragraphs |
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Various Locations of the Stated Main Idea |
In the beginnings, in the middle, at the end, or in the beginning and at the end |
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What are the traits of a main idea? |
The elements of a min idea are a topic, the author's opinion about the topic, or the author's approach to the topic |
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How does a reader identify a topic of a passage? |
A reader asks, "who or what is this passage about?" The topic is restated throughtout the passage, so the word that recurs most often is likely to be the topic |