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To read for, and with,
understanding, it is important to locate, quickly, the essential ideas. To
understand the importance of this statement, it is vital to remember that a
paragraph is a set of consecutive sentences based upon the same subject. It is
also necessary to know that the main idea or central thought of a paragraph can
be found anywhere in the text, including at the beginning, in the middle, or at
the beginning and restated at the end. In some cases, it may not be stated at all. The
latter of these is most common in tales and fables where the main idea in often
found in the unstated moral of the story. The ability to separate important
ideas from their details (either explanatory or supporting) is essential to comprehension.
Most paragraphs are built around a central theme and while many ideas are
stated plainly, others must be inferred. Struggling readers are often seen
concentrating on one or more of the details but are unaware of the
paragraph’s broader implications. One of the important
goals of most reading is to extract the deeper meaning from the surface details
of the text; seeking cause and effect relationships, making generalizations,
and drawing conclusions based on information provided within the body of the
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