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Main Idea Nonfiction

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  • 1. Multiple Choice
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    What is the difference between Main Idea and Supporting Details?
    Main Idea is the end, and Supporting Details are the beginning.
    Main Idea is what the passage is about, and Supporting Details help describe/explain the Main Idea.
    Main Idea is in every passage, but Supporting Details are only in some. 
    Main Idea is what supports the supporting details. 
  • 2. Multiple Choice
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    Native Americans dried strips of meat, pounded it into a paste, and then mixed it with fat. Sometimes they added berries and sugar. Then they pressed it into small cakes. They called these cakes pemmican. Pemmican didn't spoil, and it provided lots of energy for people traveling or going hunting. Today explorers still carry and eat this food.
    What is the passage mostly about?
    who uses pemmican today
    what can be put into pemmican
    how pemmican was prepared by Native Americans.
    why people eat pemmican today
  • 3. Multiple Choice
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    Were you born after 1985? If so, how long do you expect to live? Most people born after 1985 can expect to live more than 70 years. Of course, this is just a guess based on past records. By the way, females can expect to live about six years longer than males. That’s taken from past records too!
    What is the paragraph mostly about?
    how long you might expect to live
    about the health of females
    why people live to be 70
    tells that people live to be 100
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