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What are the four steps to finding the main idea?

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•Read the story and pay attention to the plot and story elements
•Find the theme
•turn the theme into a question
•answer the question (The answers are the supporting details)

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User Psijic
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Answer:

Read the story, and pay attention to the plot and story elements.

Ask yourself “What do people learn from reading this story?” (That's the theme!)

Turn the theme into a question.

Answer the question. The answers are the supporting details! (Which leads to citing evidence!)

Step-by-step explanation:

here u go

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