Supporting Details - Exercise 1: Millennials

Vocabulary and key concepts covering reading comprehension, stated main ideas, and supporting details based on Chapter 9, Exercise 1.

Millennials

Students born after 1982 who exhibit characteristics distinct from those of students only a few years older.

Stated Main Idea of Passage One

The statement that students born after 1982 are considered Millennials, and they exhibit quite different characteristics from those of students only a few years older.

Purpose of the Major Details in Passage One

To give characteristics of Millennials.

Supporting Details

Information within a paragraph—such as explanations, descriptions, characteristics, or examples—that supports the stated main idea.

Millennial Social and Academic Attitudes

Characteristics noted in the passage including gravitating toward group activities and believing it is cool to be smart.

Millennial Time-Use Pattern

Spending more time doing homework and housework and less time watching TV.

Millennial Demographic Diversity (Passage One)

Being racially and ethnically diverse, with $20\%$ having one immigrant parent.

Basic Skills SPIN Newsletter (November, 2004)

The publication edited by Helen Woodman for the National Association for Developmental Education cited as the source of Passage One.