Main Idea and Supporting Details

Front

What is the main idea?

Back

What the text is mostly about.

Front

Recount

Back

retell; tell again

Front

Identify

Back

recognize or name

Front

True or False: The main idea does not need supporting details.

Back

False

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Jenny visited her grandmother in the hospital. She saw how kind and helpful the nurses were to her grandmother. Now she wants to be a nurse when she grows up. She wants to help sick people get well.
What is the main idea?

Back

Jenny wants to be a nurse.

Front

What is the main idea of the passage about soccer players?

Back

Soccer players learn many skills when playing soccer.

Front

Which of the following sentences is a supporting detail?

Janice loves to go to basketball games. Her favorite team is the Houston Rockets. Janice enjoys watching the players warm-up before the game. She has been going to games since she was six years old.

Options:

Janice gets to the games late.

,

Janice enjoys watching the players warm-up

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Janice likes the Lakers.

Back

Janice enjoys watching the players warm-up

Front

Scooby-Doo ran quickly through the haunted castle. Scooby was being chased by another ghost. This ghost was the scariest ghost Scooby had ever seen. Scooby never liked Ghosts.

What is the main idea of the passage?

Back

Scooby-Doo is afraid of ghosts.

Front

What is a supporting detail in the passage?

Scooby-Doo ran quickly through the haunted castle. Scooby was being chased by another ghost. This ghost was the scariest ghost Scooby had ever seen. Scooby never liked Ghosts.

Options:

Scooby-Doo is lost in the castle.

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Scooby never liked Ghosts.

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Scooby is a good ghost hunter

Back

Scooby never liked Ghosts.

Front

Where in the text can you sometimes find the main idea?

Back

Beginning/end