Riddles
What starts with an E, ends with an E, and only has one letter?
What is an Envelope?
What is the word: GNARLY
knotted, bumpy, twisted
What is the heart and the smile face represent when you take notes?
What is making a connection?
True or False: The TOPIC and MAIN IDEA are the same.
FALSE
What gets wet while drying?
What is a towel?
A small stream is called what?
Rivulet
Marking the text with a star means I found what?
Main Idea
Where in a paragraph can you find a Main Idea?
Beginning and the End of paragraphs.
What kind of band never plays music?
Rubberband
What is the meaning of SURFEIT?
An excessive amount of something
What is another word for taking notes?
What is Annotate
True or false: You can use the supporting details to create a Main Idea.
True
What has many teeth but cannot bite?
A comb
Amiable
What do you need to "prove" what your main idea is?
A good strategy to use, when finding the main idea, is to ask yourself....what?
What is the point the author is trying to make in the text?
I'm a green house. Inside me is a white house. Inside my white house is a red house, in my red house are my babies. What am I?
What is a Watermelon?
What is gloomy, miserable, and not interested in anything?
MOPE
What should you mark your text with when you do not understand a word or phrase?
A question mark...???
TRUE OR FALSE: The main idea of a paragraph is the author's message about the topic. It is often expressed directly or it can be implied.
TRUE