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The main idea is the most important idea in a paragraph or a passage or section composed of several paragraphs. Details provide more information about the main idea. In many cases the main idea is stated at the beginning of the paragraph or section, but it also can be found at the end or somewhere in the middle.
Examples of informational text structures include compare and contrast, description, sequence, problem . and solution, and cause and effect. • A compare-and-contrast text might present types of animals or modes of transportation. Students . can work together to create a table or Venn diagram of the similarities and differences between the
is to tell the reader what events happened and the reasons why it happened. When you can figure out when the author is telling about why something happened, or the cause, and what happened, or the effect, this will better help you understand what you are reading. Mrs. Kealoha makes an anchor chart. Three Strategies to Teach Cause and Effect
Line graphs are used to track changes over short and long periods of time. When smaller changes exist, line graphs are better to use than bar graphs. Line graphs can also be used to compare changes over the same period of time for more than one group. . . . a Pie Chart. Pie charts are best to use when you are trying to compare parts of a whole.
v. t. e. A Venn diagram is a widely used diagram style that shows the logical relation between sets, popularized by John Venn (1834–1923) in the 1880s. The diagrams are used to teach elementary set theory, and to illustrate simple set relationships in probability, logic, statistics, linguistics and computer science.
Contrast (vision) Six renditions of a rocky shore photo with incremental contrast levels, clockwise from bottom left. Contrast is the difference in luminance or color that makes an object (or its representation in an image or display) visible against a background of different luminance or color. The human visual system is more sensitive to ...
or contradict the theory” (p.23). In contrast, they define the inductive researcher as someone who works from the “bottom-up, using the participants’ views to build broader themes and generate a theory interconnecting the themes” (p. 23). In research, the two main types of
The figure below shows a comparison of a state diagram with a flowchart. A state machine (panel (a)) performs actions in response to explicit events. In contrast, the flowchart (panel (b)) automatically transitions from node to node upon completion of activities. [9] Nodes of flowcharts are edges in the induced graph of states.