Reading an article

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• Studiejaar 1

What do you think our article will be about?

Reading an article

Reading an article

• Orientation article
• Reading article
  Underline important points in the article 
  Circle any difficult words
• Look for the main idea of the text
  Answer the questions and follow the steps
• Write the main idea sentence

What do you think this article is about?

YouTuber agrees to plead guilty to federal charge after intentionally crashing his plane for online views, DOJ says

Looking for the main idea.
Topic – whom or what is the passage about?

Looking for the main idea.
Topic Sentence – which sentence in the article gives the main message?

Looking for the main idea.
Author’s Purpose – what does the author want the reader to understand?

The writer wants the reader to understand that 

Writing the main idea sentence

Step 1 – Determine who or what is the focus of the text.

 

Step 2 – What is the most important thing about the who or the what from step one?

Step 3 – Write a sentence (max 20 words) using the answers from steps one and two. That sentence is the main idea!

What is the main idea of the article?