Main idea
What is the purpose of the main idea?
What is to explain what most of a text will be about?
What is another name for the speaker in a poem?
What is the narrator?
In the following text, what is the problem or conflict?
Susie looked under the couch, behind the refrigerator, and even under the bed, but Lulu could not be found. Susie scratched her head, thinking, when she heard a gentle chirp. Silly Lulu, she had been following Susie the whole time.
What is Susie could not find Lulu?
Based off the following text, how would you describe Liam?
Liam always noticed when someone was left out. At recess, he invited new students to join his soccer game. When his friend forgot lunch, Liam shared half of his sandwich without hesitation."
What is kind, considerate, thoughtful?
What is a fact?
What is a statement that can be researched, or proven correct or incorrect?
What is the main idea of the following text?
Do you want to protect Earth’s resources and control waste? Then try to remember “the three R’s.” The three R’s stand for three actions everyone can take to help Earth’s environment: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle.
What is 3 ways to help protect earth's environment and resources?
In what line do you find the word that rhymes with "glass?"
The raindrops tap a gentle song,
On rooftops, leaves, and glass,
They dance in puddles all day long,
Till stormy clouds all pass.
What is line 4?
What is the conflict of a story?
What is a problem that the character or characters have to solve in the story?
What is a character trait?
What is a character's personality, and how that impacts their behaviors?
What is an opinion?
What is a statement about what somebody personally thinks?
True or false, the following line is an example of a main idea: "Building a friendship requires trust".
What is false?
In the following poem, what does the narrator compare himself to?
To fling my arms wide
In the face of the sun,
Dance! Whirl! Whirl!
Till the quick day is done.
Rest at pale evening . . .
A tall, slim tree . . .
Night coming tenderly
Black like me.
What is the black of night?
True or False: An expensive piece of art goes missing is an example of a conflict?
What is true?
True or false: Helping others is an example of a positive character trait?
What is true?
Which two are examples of facts?
a. Salmon are the smallest type of fish.
b. Whinnie the Pooh is a great book.
c. Takis are too spicy.
d. There are four Starbucks stores located in Virginia
What are a and d?
What type of text would this main idea come from?
"Polar Bears have an interesting diet."
What would be an informational text on Polar Bears?
According to the poem, what is one good reason that your nose is on your face?
Be glad your nose is on your face,
not pasted on some other place,
for if it were where it is not,
you might dislike your nose a lot.
Imagine if your precious nose
were sandwiched in between your toes,
that clearly would not be a treat,
for you’d be forced to smell your feet.
What is because if they were between your toes, you would have to smell your feet?
What would be the purpose of a text entitled: "Riding a Bike in 5 Easy Steps."
What is to explain?
True or False: The main idea is supposed to explain a lesson or a message the author wants the reader to know?
What is false?
Based off the poem, what is a synonym of catastrophe?
Within your ear, your nose would be
an absolute catastrophe,
for when you were obliged to sneeze,
your brain would rattle from the breeze.
What is a problem, disaster, tragedy?