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English
Quarter 3 - Module 6
Main Idea, Key Sentences and
Supporting Details

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English – Grade 4
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Quarter 3 - Module 6: Main Idea, Key Sentences and Supporting Details
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English
Quarter 3 - Module 6:
Main Idea, Key Sentences and
Supporting Details

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What This Module is About

Hi learners!

It’s time to learn new insights with the help of this module. This
module is especially made for you.

This material is self-instructional. The activities are designed for

you to work independently at the convenience of your homes.

With this module, you will learn how to distinguish fact from
opinion in an informational text.

Have an enjoyable learning experience!

What I Need to Know

Hi Learners! For today’s activity you are expected to:

1. Understand about Main Idea , key sentences and supporting

details.

How to Learn from this Module

For you to achieve the objectives cited above, you are to do the
following:
• Take your time reading the lessons carefully.

• Follow the directions and/or instructions in the activities and

exercises diligently.

• Answer all the given tests and exercises.

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Lesson Main Idea, Key

1 Sentences and
Supporting Details
Every story, poem, or paragraph has a main idea. The main idea
tells what the story, poem or paragraph is about. The key sentences
give key to the main idea. The supporting details tell more about the
main idea.

What I Know

Directions: Identify the main idea of each paragraph. Choose the

letter of the correct answer.

1. Filipinos are helpful. They are ready to help one another especially
in times of need. During natural calamities like typhoons, fires and
earthquakes, they are always ready to give help to the victims of these
calamities. In their barangay, they help one another in activities such
as planting and harvesting farm crops or rebuilding a house.
A. Filipinos are helpful.
B. They help in planting and harvesting farm crops
2. Filipinos show respect to their elders. The younger person takes the
elder’s hand and brings it to his/her forehead to show respect. They
take good care of their grandparents and other members of the family
when they grow old. They hold family reunions on special days.
They visit the tombs of their dead relatives and place candles and
flowers there.
A. Filipinos celebrate special holidays.
B. Filipinos show love and respect to their family members.
3. The Filipinos show a deep reverence for a Supreme Being.
Christian Filipinos pray to God and thank Him for His blessings. They
hold fiestas and processions in honor of their patron saints. Muslim

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Filipinos go to their mosque and pray to Allah. They observe special
days such as the Ramadan.
A. Christian and Muslim Filipinos pray to their Gods
B. Filipinos have strong faith in a Supreme Being.
4. Filipinos are respectful, helpful, God-fearing, hospitable and loving.
These are the beautiful traits of Filipinos. They show these traits in
their customs, traditions and practices. We can also say that we are
happy people.
A. Filipinos are happy people.
B. Filipinos have many beautiful traits.
5. Water is always moving in a great cycle - from the earth to the
clouds, then back to the earth. Water that form clouds comes from the
oceans, lakes, ponds, rivers and brooks. This water comes back to
Earth in the form of the rain.
A. Rain helps us.
B. The water cycle.

What’s In

Directions: Read the selection and answer the questions below.

Philippine Heroes
During their time, Rizal and Bonifacio did good things for the
Filipinos and for our country. They are heroes.
Our heroes were little children like you, once upon a time. When
Andres was a little boy, his parents died so he took care of his brother
and sisters.
Andres worked very hard to earn a living. He made paper fans
and carved toys from wood. He sold them along the streets. He also
ran errands for others.
As a little boy, Jose Rizal used his time wisely. He read a lot of
books. He drew and painted pictures. He molded figures out of clay.
He craved things from wood He also wrote poems, stories and
playlets.

Source: English 4 Learner’s Material, page 287

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1. Who are the heroes mentioned in the selection?
______________________________________________________
2. Do Rizal and Bonifacio both live an easy childhood? _________
3. What is the selection about? ____________________________

What’s New

Read the poem.

Insect Bodies
Victoria Smith

Every insect’s body has three parts.

Yes, every insect’s body has three parts.
Every insect has a head.
A thorax and abdomen,
Every insect’s body has three parts.

Every insect’s body has six legs.

Yes, every insect’s body has six legs.
It has three legs on each side
And it walks on them with pride.
Every insect’s body has six legs.

Source: English Learner’s Manual 4, page 100

Answer the following:

1. What is the poem about? ___________________________

2. How many parts does an insect’s body have? ____________
3. What are the parts of an insect’s body? _________________
4. What do you think is the main idea of the poem? __________

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 What is It

Think!

Every story, poem or paragraph has a main idea.

The main idea tells what the story, poem or paragraph is about.
The key sentence tells what the paragraph is all about. It may
be the first, last or middle sentence in the paragraph. All sentences in
the paragraph are related to the key sentence.
The supporting details tell more about the main idea. They
give important details and describe the main idea for better
understanding.

The poem you have read talks about the insect’s body parts. So
the main idea is body parts of insects. The supporting details are the
head, thorax and abdomen.

Example:
The earth is constantly in motion. It always rotates like a top. It
takes the earth twenty-four hours to make one rotation. As the earth
rotates, it also revolves around the sun. It takes 365 days for the earth
to revolve around the sun.
Main Idea: The movement of the earth.
Key sentence: The earth is constantly in motion.
Supporting Details:
It takes the earth twenty-four hours to make one rotation.
It takes 365 days for the earth to revolve around the sun.

What’s More

Directions: Read the paragraph carefully. Answer the questions that

follow.
. The colors of the flag stand for peace, loyalty, and bravery. The stars
A.
stand for the three groups of island in our country. The sun has eight rays.
They represent the eight provinces that joined the Katipunan to fight the
Spaniards. Each part of the Philippine flag has meaning.

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 1. What is the paragraph about? _________________________
2. What is the key sentence of the paragraph?
___________________________________________________
3. What are the supporting details?
___________________________________________________

B. Many people go to Cebu during the Sinulog Festival. This week-

long celebration is held in January every year. The image of Santo
Niño, dressed in red velvet, is carried in a procession around the city.
Men and women dance in the streets. They do this as a thanksgiving
for all the favors they received during the year. Sinulog is the most
colorful religious celebration in Cebu.

4. What is the paragraph about? _________________________

5. What is the key sentence of the paragraph?
___________________________________________________

What I Have Learned

Directions: Read the paragraph and answer the questions that follow.

Ants eat different kinds of foods. Some ants eat seeds. Other
ants gather the juices from flowers and stems of plants. Still others eat
dead insects. One kind of ant eats fungi that grow on the pieces of leaf
it brings to its nest.

1. The paragraph is about –

a. The food that ants eat.
b. The different kinds of ants.
c. The ants that eat flowers.
2. What is the key sentence? __________________________
3. What are the supporting details?
___________________________________________________
___________________________________________________

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 What I Can Do

Directions: Read the paragraph and answer the questions that follow.

Ants live together in colonies. Each ant has a job to do. Some
ants are workers. They look for food and clean the nest. Others are
soldiers. They help protect the nest. The ant colony has a queen. The
whole colony takes care of her. She lays all the eggs. Without her,
there would be no ant colony.

1. What is the paragraph about?

a. The ants living together in colonies
b. The frogs in the water
c. The queen that lays eggs
2. What is the key sentence? ___________________________
3. What are the supporting details?
___________________________________________________
___________________________________________________

Post Assessment

Directions: Identify the main idea of each paragraph. Choose the

letter of the correct answer.

1. The school ground is very much alive. There are children

everywhere. They noisily greet one another. They are telling stories
about their experiences during the vacation. They are happy to see
their friends.
A. What the children are doing. B. Where the children are.
C. Why they are noisy.
2. There’s one girl standing all alone in one corner. She isn’t talking.
She isn’t laughing, either. She is wiping the tears running down her
cheeks.
A. The girl who feels lonely. B. A girl who stands alone.
C. A girl who likes to be alone.

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3. Nilo’s face reddens. He slowly stands up. His knees are shaking
and his heart is thumping like a drum as he walks slowly to the room.
He saw his classmates looking at him. He was ashamed to look at his
classmates.
A. Nilo is a shy boy. B. He is a proud boy.
C. He is sick.
4. Barangay San Pablo is located along the seashore. Most of the
people own a banca and fishing net. Every morning they go out to the
sea. At noontime, they return to the seashore where they are met by
fish vendors.
A. The occupation of the people in the barangay.
B. What the people do every morning.
C. Why the fish vendors meet them.
5. There are tiny fish and tadpoles. There are frogs and turtles clinging
to small rocks. Mosquitoes buzz around. Dragonflies fly just above the
water. There are other small animals that we cannot see with our
eyes.
A. The dragonflies and the mosquitoes.
B. The small animals living in the water.
C. The tiny fish and tadpoles.

Additional Activities

Directions: Read the paragraph and answer the questions that follow.

There is an animal that looks like a carabao but it is smaller. It

is called tamaraw. Its horn grows straight like a letter “V” while the
carabao horns form a wide “c”. The tamaraw can be found in the
island of Mindoro. When it is full-grown, it measures about 220
centimeters in length from the head to the body.

1. What is the paragraph about?_________________________

2. What is the key sentence? __________________________
3. What are the supporting details?
___________________________________________________
_________________________________________________

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Post Assessment
1. A
2. A
3. A
4. A
5. B
What I Can Do
1. Jobs of ants in a colony
2. Each ant has a job to do.
Additional Activities 3. -Some ants are workers andlook for food
1. tamaraw and clean the nest.
2. There is an animal that looks like a -Others are soldiers and help protect the
carabao but it is smaller. nest.
3. -Its horn grows straight like a letter “V” -The whole colony takes care of the queen.
while the carabao horns form a wide “c”. –The queen lays all the eggs.
-When it is full-grown, it measures about
220 centimeters in length from the head to What I have Learned
the body. 1. a
2. Ants eat different kinds of foods.
What’s More 3. -Some ants eat seeds.
1. Philippine Flag -Other ants gather the juices from flowers
2. Each part of the Phil. Flag has meaning and stems of plants.
3. The colors of the flag stand for peace, -Still others eat dead insects.
loyalty, and bravery. -One kind of ant eats fungi that grow on the
The stars stand for the three groups of pieces of leaf it brings to its nest.
island in our country.
The sun’s eight rays represent the eight
provinces that joined the Katipunan to fight What’s New
the Spaniards. 1. body parts of insects
4. Sinulog Festival 2. three
5. Sinulog is the most colorful religious 3. head, thorax, abdomen
celebration in Cebu. 4. All insects have three body parts.
What’s In What I Know
1. Jose P. Rizal & Andres Bonifacio 1. A
2. No 2. B
3. Life of Jose Rizal & Andres Bonifacio 3. B
when they were still young 4. B
5. B
Lesson 1
Answer Key
References:

Miranda, B. N. (2008) English For You and Me Textbook (Revised

Edition, 2011) Book Wise Publishing House, Inc.

Rabelas, Grace U., et. al. (2015). English Learner’s Material.

Department of Education Republic of the Philippines.

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