What's the Main Idea?
Cause and Effect
Compare and Contrast
Literature Structure
Fact, Opinion or Generalization
100
Velociraptor, Diplodocus, Tyrannosaurus, Megalosaurus
What are dinosaurs?
100
Cause-Cassie didn't hear her alarm clock.
What is she was late for school?
100
Apples and oranges are both types of fruit.
What is to comparison?
100
A line in a poem.
What is a verse?
100
Blue whales can reach up to 108 feet in length.
What is a fact?
200
viola, violin, oboe, cello
What are musical instruments?
200
Effect-The baby bird was on the ground.
What is he fell out of the nest?
200
Peter is old, but John is young.
What is a contrast?
200
The main sections of a drama.
What are acts?
200
All boys love football.
What is a generalization?
300
falcon, eagle, buzzard
What birds of prey? or What are raptors?
300
Effect-I took out my umbrella?
What is it started to rain?
300
Katie and McKenna are both in 5th grade.
What is a comparison?
300
A written conversation between two or more characters.
What is dialogue?
300
Pizza is the best!
What is an opinion?
400
valleys, plateaus, mountains
What are landforms?
400
Cause-The stove temperature was set too high.
What is the food burned?
400
Austin and Tommy passed their Ohio Achievement tests.
What is a comparison?
400
A group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
400
All Italians love pasta.
What is a generalization?
500
Sage, thyme, rosemary
What are herbs?
500
Effect-Grandma baked me a cake.
What is it was my birthday?
500
Lacy's hair is blonde, but Rianna's is red.
What is a contrast?
500
A group of sentences that support or explain one main idea.
What is a paragraph?
500
Mrs. Eberts is the nicest teacher at Central Elementary.
What is an opinion?
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