Lesson 2: Evaluating Expository Text

• Main idea is the central concept or primary point that the forms of communication aims to convey.
• The main idea tells the most important information or message that the author or speaker wants the audience to understand.
• What is the importance of understanding how to identify the main idea of a text?

  to understand the text.
• Quoting - refers to the act of directly citing or referencing specific languages or passages from a text to support the main idea.
• Summarizing - condensing the main points, ideas, and arguments of a text into concise and coherent form.
• Paraphrasing - restating information from the original text in your own words while retaining the original information.