CHAPTER 2 – Identify Main Ideas

"The Flower Carrier" by Diego Rivera

Significant points from Chapter 2 include:

1. Identifying Main Idea - most important reading strategies used by good readers

2. Speed up reading, help understanding & remember what you read

• Who or what is the reading about? – The topic
• What does the author want me to know about the topic? – The main idea

3. *Main idea in introductory paragraph is called “Thesis Statement”

4. *Main idea in body paragraph (content) is called “Topic Sentence”

*Refer to the Fish Bone

Note:

• The Flower Carrier by Diego Rivera
• Frida Kahlo (Mexican artist, Rivera's ex-wife)
• Frida (2002 American Movie)
• Yo-Yo Ma (French-American cellist)