How can a reader trace how an author develops a central idea throughout a text? check all that apply. by looking for the denotative and the connotative meanings of the author’s words by determining the central idea of each paragraph by identifying the most important details used to support the central idea of each paragraph by analyzing how the author uses context to convey the central idea in each paragraph by summarizing the central idea and key details of each paragraph in a single sentence by finding the common element among the central ideas throughout the text

2. by determining the central idea of each paragraph, 3. by identifying the most important details used to support the central idea of each paragraph, 5. by summarizing the central idea and key details of each paragraph in a single sentence and 6. by finding the common element among the central ideas throughout the text.

Explanation: To trace how an author develops a central idea throughout a text can be very helpful to really understand the structure of a text and even be able to reproduce it when we are writing an essay or any other kind of text. To do it, we need to find the central idea of each paragraph and the details that support that idea, it is very helpful if we condense those two things in one sentence, and finally we find the elements in common about the central ideas in the whole text.