Main Idea
Comprehension
Details, Details, Details
Vocabulary
Misc.
100
This is another way to ask for the main idea.
What is: "What would be a good title for this passage?"
100
This is the species of bird that was being studied by the scientists in the story.
What are turkeys?
100
This was Bailey's temperature when she was sick.
What is 102?
100
This is an animal that hunts other animals for food.
What is a predator?
100
This is the word that the adverb GENTLY modifies in the sentence: "I gently stretched myself out."
What is stretched?
200
Examples, explanations, or reasons that help explain the main idea.
What are supporting details?
200
These are scientists who study birds.
What is an ornithologist?
200
This is the decade that Bailey grew up in.
What is the 1950s?
200
This means: covered with short, fine hair or fibers.
What is fuzzy?
200
This is the adverb in the sentence: "They marched solemnly into the house, carrying a cardboard box."
What is solemnly?
300
Where the main idea of a paragraph is usually stated.
What is a topic sentence?
300
This is the reason the ornithologists put the eggs in Bailey's bed when she had a fever.
What is: to hatch the eggs?
300
This is where Bailey White grew up.
What is on a farm/in the country?
300
This means a way of doing something.
What is methods?
300
This is the cultural factor that most clearly affected the author when writing "Turkeys." A. going to high school during the Vietnam War B. teaching first grade for more than 20 years C. living in the same house in the woods where she was born and raised
What is: C. living in the same house in the woods where she was born and raised?
400
This is the best way to determine the main idea in "Turkeys." A. Identify the cultural and historical influences on the the author. B. Look at all the facts and opinions in the essay. C. Identify the key details in the text.
What is: C. Identify the key details in the text?
400
This is what Bailey White was sick with in "Turkeys."
What is the measles?
400
This is the number of wild turkeys that hatched from the eggs.
What is 16?
400
This means to write something quickly and carelessly?
What is scribbled?
400
These are the cultural and historical factors that influenced the author of "Turkeys." A. where and when she was born B. her hobbies and interests C. the countries she has visited
What is: A. where and when she was born?
500
Out of these choices, this best expresses the main idea of "Turkeys." A. The experience made me want to become an ornithologist some day. B. Helping to save wild turkeys made me feel connected to nature. C. I will never forgive my mother for letting scientists put eggs in my bed.
What is: B. Helping to save wild turkeys made me feel connected to nature.
500
This is the reason the ornithologists were happy when they saw the turkeys fly at the end of the story after measuring the distance and angle of their takeoff.
What is: they proved they were pure, wild turkeys?
500
This is the author's age when she caught the measles.
What is 6?
500
This mean the relatives of people or animals that lived in the past.
What is descendants?
500
The size of a turkey egg compared to a chicken egg.
What is a little bigger?
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