Help Your Students Get the Main Idea with Graphic Organizers.

Cassidy, Jack; Hossler, Ann

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ERIC Number: EJ455181

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1992

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Help Your Students Get the Main Idea with Graphic Organizers.

Cassidy, Jack; Hossler, Ann

Learning, v21 n2 p75-77,82 Sep 1992

Three graphic organizers are presented to teach students the concept of main idea. One describes how to examine details in an article to determine the main idea. Another explains how specific details support main ideas. The third describes deduction, stressing the importance of expository detail to support the main idea. (SM)

Descriptors: Deduction, Elementary Secondary Education, Graphic Organizers, Learning Activities, Reading Strategies, Teaching Methods, Thinking Skills, Visual Aids, Worksheets

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - Classroom - Learner; Guides - Classroom - Teacher

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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners

Language: English

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