20 questions
What is the main idea?
Where the story takes place
What the character is thinking
The big idea of the text
What a dog eats
What are supporting details?
Useless
Details from the text that tell you how the character is feeling
Details about the text that tell you about the setting
Details from the text that develop the main idea
Yesterday was my birthday. When I woke up, I noticed my brother Josh hung up a big sign that said,"Happy Birthday, Charles!" Mom made spaghetti for dinner.
It's my favorite food in the whole world. My friend Dave came over and handed me a wrapped gift. I wondered what it was. It was a new basketball! I had a great day.
What is the main idea of this paragraph?
Josh got lots of gifts.
Charles got lots of gifts.
Charles had a great birthday.
Josh had a great birthday.
What is the main idea of the passage?
Scrabble is a game that provides hours of challenging fun for you and your friends. In this game you use your letters to build new words from words already on the game board. Scrabble is a fun way to learn new words and meanings.
Scrabble is challenging and fun.
Scrabble is a good game for building vocabulary.
It takes skill to play a good game.
Scrabble can take hours to play.
What is this selection mainly about?
Someday we will all have robots that will be our personal servants. They will look and behave much like real humans. We will be able to talk to these mechanical helpers and they will be able to respond in kind! Amazingly, the robots of the future will be able to learn from experience. They will be smart, strong, and untiring workers whose only goal will be to make our lives easier.
Someday we will have robots that will be our personal servants.
We will be able to talk to robots and they will be able to respond.
Robots will look and behave much like real humans.
Amazingly, the robots of the future will be able to learn from experience.
What is the main idea of this paragraph?
Maria is watching too much television. A toddler shouldn’t be spending hours staring blankly at a screen. Worse yet, some of her wild behavior has been inspired by those awful cartoons she watches. We need to spend more time reading books with her and pull the plug on the TV!
Watching a lot of television isn’t good for Maria.
Books are good.
All cartoons are bad.
Some cartoons are bad for Maria.
If you are feeling sad, you can make yourself feel better by doing a few simple things. You can take a walk (or get another form of exercise), you can talk to a friend, or you can write down your feelings. Writing down the good things in your life will help too. Doing something good for someone else will also help you feel better. If you still feel a little sad, act happy. It works like magic to make you feel better!
What is the main idea?
Sometimes people feel sad
You should do good things for others
We're not always happy.
There are many ways to make yourself feel better.
Main Idea and Theme are both used for Informational texts.
True
False