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English Language Arts and Literacy | Grade : 4

Strand - Reading Informational Text

Cluster - Key Ideas and Details

[RI.4.2] - Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text.

Resources:


  • Main/central idea
    Concept illustrated or position taken by a text as a whole, whether stated explicitly (as in a how-to guide explaining a process or an essay defending a thesis) or conveyed implicitly (as in a novel or collection of short stories illustrating a theme).
  • Massachusetts Anchor Standards for Reading
  • Summary
    An account of a text’s main points, disregarding unimportant details and usually employing the same order of events or topics as the source text. Summarizing is a basic reading technique that consolidates and demonstrates understanding of a text’s overall meaning. See Synthesis.

Predecessor Standards:

  • RI.3.2
    Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.

Successor Standards:

  • RI.5.2
    Determine one or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize a text.

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