Identifying Minor Supporting Details ACTIVITY 5 Differentiate Major from Minor S

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Identifying Minor Supporting Details ACTIVITY 5 Differentiate Major from Minor Supporting Details The following passage, Thanks for the Topsoil, should be familiars you read it when practicing wi major supporting details in Activity 5A. Read it again, but this time, after you read it, ask yoursel hat are the minor supporting details?" As you try to differentiate between major and minc supporting details, ask yourself what each detail supports. Ifit directly supports the main idea, it i a major supporting detail-and you will have already identified it. If the detail supports the majo detail, it is a minor supporting detail. Think of it this way: If the detail could be left out withou the passage losing its main idea, it is probably a minor detail. Earthworms, the "intestines of the earth," as Aristode called them, dramatically alter soil struc ture, water movement, nutrient dynamics, and plant growth, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. These segmented vertebrates have been around for half a billion years, but they have no eyes, ears, or lungs. They digest organic material (such as dead leaves), soil, and even tiny stones which are excreted as castings that enrich and acrate the soil. Worms are pretty much responsible for all the rich soil on the planet. There can be as many as a million worms per acre in temperate regions. Some species are able to regenerate themselves: if one is cut in half, it can grow a new tail (but the pieces don't become two whole new worms.) Source: Malesky, Kee. All Facts Considered. The Esential Library of Inesential Knowledg John Wiley and Sons, Inc.: New Jersey, 2010, p. 121. 2 List all the minor supporting details, and explain why they are not major supporting details.

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The minor supporting details of the passage are:

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