This is where a stated main idea is found in a paragraph.
What is the topic sentence (or first sentence)
100
This is an educated guess.
What is an inference?
100
This is what P.A.F. stands for?
What is purpose, audience, focus?
100
This is a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
100
This is a shortened version of what you read, including only the important parts.
What is a summary?
200
This is where you usually find supporting details in a paragraph.
What is in the middle?
200
These are the two things you need to make an inference.
What is clues from the text and background knowledge (what you already know)?
200
This is the first sentence in your paragraph, it contains the main idea.
What is a topic sentence?
200
This is an action word
What is a verb?
200
This is the important point of something you read, often in the topic sentence or implied.
What is a main idea?
300
What is the main idea of this paragraph?
School lunches should be more healthy. Often, students are ordering Skittles and nachos to eat every day; this can lead to a lack of energy. Students that lack energy are less likely to think and perform well on tests. Furthermore, the school should offer more vegetables. Veggies are rich in vitamins and nutrients and help students grow and feel great. To conclude, the school lunch should offer healthier options.
What is the school lunch needs to be healthier?
300
What happens next?
Alice was carrying a large clothes basket from the bedroom down the stairs to the laundry room.
She struggled under the weight of the basket. She wished her younger brothers would help her.
Instead, they were playing. She had heard them throwing a baseball in the house earlier. She had told
them to go outside. They had gone to the backyard, but they had left the baseball on the stairs.
What is Alice will fall because of the baseball?
300
First, next, also, to begin, second, furthermore, for example, therefore, in conclusion, to conclude
are all examples of these
What are transitions?
300
This is a word that describes an action or verb.
What is an adverb?
300
When a main idea is this, you have to look at all the details to figure out what the point is.
What is an implied main idea?
400
This is how you determine a main idea of a paragraph that DOESN'T have a topic sentence.
What is look at the details and decide what they all have in common. (make an inference)
400
What happens next?
It had been a beautiful sunny day. Now George saw the clouds begin to roll in. The gentle breeze
of the day started blowing steadily. In the distance the blue sky was now a dark, angry purple. Far
away, but coming closer, George saw something that scared him. He ran to the house to tell his
mother that they needed to get into the storm cellar right away.
What is Tornado!
400
These are the four things a quote sentence needs.
What are a set up, comma, quotes, and word for word information?
400
This is a word that connects two sections or ideas. (but, and, so, yet)
What is a conjunction?
400
This is an educated guess you make based on clues and prior knowledge.
What is an inference?
500
What is the main idea of this paragraph?
Novels and short stories are types of fiction. Drama is another example. Fairy tales and fables are also fiction. It is a type of narrative writing that comes from the imagination of the author rather than from history or fact.
What is types of fiction.
500
What happens next?
Winston stood at the store counter. It was hard to make a decision. On the one hand, he had just
enough money to buy the new game he wanted so badly. However, he had come to the store to buy
his mother’s birthday present. If he bought her present, he would have to wait another week to have
enough money for the game. As he looked at the game, he remembered that his mother made his
favorite soup when he was sick. He also thought about how proud she was when he won the relay
race. His mind was made up.
What is he buys his mother's gift?
500
This is the P.A.F. for the following.
Create an alternate ending for the story "The Third Wish".
What is Purpose - entertain, Audience - general, Focus - writing a new ending to "The Third Wish"
500
This is the person, place, or thing, that is doing something in a sentence.
What is the subject?
500
This is any kind of writing that is real (articles, newspapers, magazines...)