First, let's go over your question to find what we're looking for.
<span>Randy is trying to determine the centralidea of an informationaltext. What question should he askhimself?
The bolded words are what we are looking for. This question is asking us, "In order to find the central(main) idea of an informational text, what should be asked in order to find it?"
Now that we know that let's read over the answer choices! Remember we are looking for the central(main idea) for an INFORMATIONAL TEXT! </span><span> A.) Where does the texttakeplace? -Though this is informational, I don't see what this has to do with the main idea of the text. This is incorrect. B.)What is the mainmessage of the text? -This is asking what the main message of the text is. Which, sounds an awful lot like what we are looking for. This is your answer!
C.) What is the author’sattitudetoward his or her topic? -Emotion of the text should not matter here, since we are looking for the central idea of an informational text so C is incorrect.
D.)What examples of the topic does the authorinclude? </span><span>-Why would we need examples when trying to determine the central idea? This is incorrect.
