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- 1. Multiple Choice
A statement that tells what a passage is mostly about -
Topic
Main idea
Claim
Transitional sentence
- 2. Multiple Choice
What are the facts and/or examples in the paragraph called?
Facts
Main Idea
Supporting Details
Summary
- 3. Multiple Choice
Mount Rushmore is a huge carving in a stone cliff. The carving shows the faces of four U.S. presidents. They are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. Mount Rushmore is in South Dakota. Each year many people visit this amazing sight.
What is the main idea?
Mount Rushmore is a carving in a stone cliff.
Mount Rushmore is in South Dakota
George Washington is one of the faces on Mount Rushmore.
Mount Rushmore attracts visitors.
- 4. Multiple Choice
Mount Rushmore is a huge carving in a stone cliff. The carving shows the faces of four U.S. presidents. They are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. Mount Rushmore is in South Dakota. Each year many people visit this amazing sight.
What is a detail that tells about the main idea?
How the four presidents were chosen.
Mount Rushmore is rarely visited because it is in South Dakota.
Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, and Lincoln are the presidents carved into Mount Rushmore.
No one is interested in Mount Rushmore anymore.
- 5. Multiple Choice
Mount Rushmore is a huge carving in a stone cliff. The carving shows the faces of four U.S. presidents. They are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. Mount Rushmore is in South Dakota. Each year many people visit this amazing sight.
The best title for this paragraph would be?
The Face of Washington
Mount Rushmore Carvings
Visiting South Dakota
- 6. Multiple Choice
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.
- 7. Multiple Choice
That roller coaster is dangerous.
The best supporting details for the above topic sentence is ...
It is slower than any other roller coaster in the state. The curves of its track are so wide and the hills are so shallow that a ride on this roller coaster seems like a drive in the country. People don’t scream when they ride it. Instead, they enjoy the view from above the park.
It is known as one of the best roller coasters in the country. People will wait in lines for hours just to try it. At certain points it reaches the same speeds as cars do on highways. The track is so tall and long that you can see it miles away.
Last year, it broke down several times, leaving people stranded in their cars sixty feet off the ground. In most cars, the seat belts are torn and don’t always buckle properly. One area of the track shakes and makes a strange grinding sound whenever a car passes over it.
- 8. Multiple Choice
Which best describes a summary?
a really long detailed piece of writing
the entire text told in your own words
a thing that teachers make you write
the main ideas and important details of a text
- 9. Multiple Choice
What are supporting details in a nonfiction passage?
Conversations between characters
Unnecessary information
Facts or examples that support the main idea
Facts or examples that support the theme
- 10. Multiple Choice
We should improve our school by planting a garden. A garden is an inviting sight to see when you come to a building. A garden would teach students responsibility because they would have to regularly care for it. With a garden, we could support the school by selling the plants and vegetables that we grow.
What would be a good conclusion sentence?
That's why a garden would be a great idea for our school.
A garden would be a way to make our school beautiful.
A school garden would benefit everyone in our school community.
We should improve our school by planting a garden.
- 11. Multiple Choice
What is the topic sentence in the following paragraph?
Going to camp was the best part of my summer. I learned how to paddle in a canoe. It was fun! We stayed in cabins with other kids my age. They were so funny. My favorite part was the camp fires at night and singing songs. I can’t wait to go back again next year.
I can't wait to go back again next year.
It was fun!
We stayed in cabins with other kids my age.
Going to camp was the best part of my summer.
- 12. Multiple Choice
What is a topic sentence?
It is the ending of a paragraph.
It is a complete sentence that expresses the main idea of a paragraph and it is mostly found at the beginning.
It is not important.
- 13. Multiple Choice
What do you call the last sentence in a paragraph?
topic sentence
supporting detail sentence
transition sentence
closing or conclusion sentence
- 14. Multiple Choice
What do you call the sentences in a paragraph that support the main idea?
topic sentence
supporting details
closing sentence
transition words
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