Main Idea
What is a central idea?
A main idea is the most important part of a paragraph.
What is a supporting detail?
Supporting details are details that tell you more about the main idea. AKA evidence
The children in the science class worked together as a team. The great synergy that was created made the project a huge success.
What does synergy mean?
teamwork
For hopeful professional football players, the prospect of being drafted can seem overwhelming because the odds are often against them. One way for players to stand out is to be in top physical condition. Potential football players have to be able to show coaches their power and abilities. Athletes have to show how strong and fast they are and should be able to show coaches and scouts the ways they can take advantage of their size. Opportunities for athletes to showcase their abilities include the 40-yard dash and the vertical jump. The vertical jump requires players to jump from a standing position and some top athletes can jump over 40 inches.
What is the central idea of
today’s passage?
a. It is difficult to become a professional football player
b. The vertical jump is a challenging task that involves jumping after standing still.
c. Hopeful football players have to be in peak physical shape.
c. Hopeful football players have to be in peak physical shape. .
Kangaroos protect themselves in many ways. If a kangaroo senses danger, they will bang their tail on the ground to warn the others.A new born joey is only the size of your thumb.
The central idea is about how kangaroos protect themselves.
What is the supporting detail?
If a kangaroo senses danger, they will bang their tail on the ground to warn the others.
Silly
Most students today go to school in large buildings that contain multiple rooms, but this wasn’t always the case. Years ago, in rural parts of the United States, children went to school in buildings that only had one room. The students that attended school there would be in the same class as everyone else that lived nearby, regardless of their age. The students all had the same teacher, but learned different things throughout the day. The older students would often help the younger students in their studies and may also have had to help maintain the fire in the building during the winter months. Often children did not go to school through the 12th grade, as many students had to stay home and take on more responsibility as they got older.
Students in rural areas went to smaller schools with fewer options.
Kangaroos are strange looking animals. Some kangaroos act as guards to protect the mob. They have small front legs and huge hind legs with great big feet.
The passage is about kangaroos physical features.
What is the supporting detail in the paragraph?
They have small front legs and huge hind legs with great big feet.
Ms. Trangle explained to her math class how fractions divide a whole into different parts. Hawa, as a good math student, CLEAVED the pie chart into eight pieces. Using context clues, what does cleaved mean?
to cut into parts
Yellowstone National Park is mainly located in Wyoming, although three percent is located in the state of Montana. The Continental Divide of North America runs diagonally through the southwestern part of the park. The park sits on the Yellowstone Plateau, which is an average elevation of 8,000 feet above sea level. This plateau is bounded on nearly all sides by mountain ranges. There are 290 waterfalls that are at least fifteen feet in the park, the highest being the Lower Falls of the Yellowstone River, which falls 308 feet.
Yellowstone is one of the most beautiful natural parks in the world.
Kangaroos are mostly night time creatures. Kangaroos have a long powerful tail.They sleep during the day under a shady tree or bush.
This passage is about how a kangaroo behaves during the day.
What is the supporting detail in the paragraph?
They sleep during the day under a shady tree or bush.
Mr. Covert will not accept answers in his class unless the students are able to support their answers with evidence from the text. He told the students they must CORROBORATE their statements related to the text. Using context clues, what does corroborate mean?
to make more certain or confirm
It is estimated that over twenty million pounds of candy corn are sold in the US each year. Brach’s, the top manufacturer, sells enough candy corn to circle the earth 4.25 times if each piece were laid end to end. That’s a lot of candy corn, but that’s nothing compared to the production of Tootsie Rolls. Over 64 million Tootsie Rolls are produced every day! But even Tootsie Rolls have got nothing on the candy industry’s staple product: chocolate. Confectioners manufacture over twenty billion pounds of chocolate in the United States each year. Now that’s a mouthful!
Candy is very popular in the United States and thousands of pieces are produced and sold every year.
Kangaroos usually have only one baby at a time.Kangaroo babies are called joeys.Kangaroos eat grass and leaves.What is the supporting detail?
Kangaroo babies are called joeys.