Central idea
Part A: What is the central idea?
Part B: Which sentence best supports the answer?
Some animals have stronger senses than humans. Dogs, for example, have powerful noses. Sniffer dogs help find people who are trapped. They tell the rescue workers where the victims are. These dogs also smell bombs and alert the police. Eagles and hawks have extremely sharp eyes. This helps them see small rodents from far away. Elephants and cats can hear sounds that humans cannot. Bats and dolphins have echolocation. They can send out sound waves. These waves help find prey.
Part A: Many animals have stronger senses than humans.
Part B: Some animals have stronger senses than humans
What would happen if the Nile dried up?
The ancient Egyptians lived along the Nile River. It was called the “fertile river.” The river runs from the middle of Africa up north. The Nile was very important to life in Egypt. Floods every year cover the land with fresh silt. This silt makes the land very good for growing food.
People dug canals to grow more food. These canals move water from the river to crops.
All around is the Sahara Desert. This dry desert made people stay close to the river. They needed the Nile to grow crops.
The Egyptians would leave
What is a habitat?
The tiger is the largest living cat. It is most known for its dark vertical stripes. These are on orange fur with a white underside.
predator tigers eat things like deer and wild pigs to hunt they need large habitats a habitat is the animal's home
They usually like to live alone, but tiger Cubs stay with their mother for about two years. Then they become independent. They leave their mothers to find their own homes.
An animal's home
Which sentence gives a point made by the author?
Sometimes you need to speak softly when you whisper a secret to a friend. But other times you need to shout loudly to your friend on the other side of the playing field. Sounds have different volumes.
Also, a mouse makes a very squeaky, high sound. But a lion makes a low growl. The sounds that these animals make have different pitches.
Sounds have different volumes.
What is the central idea of this passage?
People who study plants start by looking at the plants/ They compare what they see. They later move on to more complicated things. We can compare different plants using our eyes. When we compare plants, it is sometimes easier to use the different plant structures. These structures can be used to compare plants. We can look at the stems, for example. The stems of the banana palm and the basil plant are different. The basil plant has a thin green stem. The banana palm has a thick brown woody bark covering its thick trunk.
You can compare plants by looking at them.
Which word would best describe the Blacksmith in the poem?
Under a spreading chestnut tree
the village Smithy stands;
The Smith, A mighty man he is,
with large and muscly hands,
and the muscles of his beefy arms
are strong as iron bands.
His hair is crisp, and black, and long;
His face is like the tan;
his brow is wet with honest sweat,
He earns whatever he can,
And looks the whole world in the face,
for he owes not any man.
(Blacksmith or Smithy= a person who makes and repairs things in iron by hand)
Hardworking
When objects are moving. They have movement.The faster the object is moving, the more movement it has. When you're riding your bicycle, you have movement. A race car that is traveling has lots of movement. A rocket that is taking off has a huge amount of movement. When I am dancing, I have movement.
Which of the following is NOT an example of moving?
A. Riding a bicycle
B. Sitting on a bench
C. A racecar
D. A rocket taking off
B. Sitting on a bench
What are TWO reasons the author wrote this paragraph?
How can we make sounds louder? Have you ever seen someone talking into a megaphone? A megaphone makes our voices louder and travel further. Many instruments also make sounds louder in the same way. Wind instruments (Tube instruments) use a tube as a funnel to make sounds seem louder, similar to what you see with a megaphone. String instruments do the same but using a hollow shape.
To describe how to hear instruments make sounds louder. To compare a megaphone and instruments.
What is the central idea?
A spoiled Princess reluctantly befriends the frog Prince. She met the Prince after dropping a gold ball into a pond. He retrieves it for her in exchange for her friendship the frog Prints magically transforms into a handsome Prince. The frog's spell was broken when the Princess threw him against the wall. The Frog Prince also has a loyal servant named Henry. He had three iron bands around his heart. The bands were to prevent it from breaking. He was extremely sad over his master's curse. Henry is overwhelmingly happy when the Frog Prince becomes human.This causes all three bands to break, freeing his heart from its bonds.
The frog turns back into a Prince.
Why does a wing need a lift?
The only power that a wing needs is to be moved forward through the air. On a glider the wing is either pushed to get it started or it is brought somewhere high up and dropped like a hand glider pilot starting from the top of a Cliff and a powered airplane. The engines either push or pull the wings through the air. The shape and positioning of a wing is very important. Most wings are curved, which.Makes the air going over them go faster than the air going under them. Because the air above the wing moves faster, it is more spread out than the air below the wing. Air presses on everything around it even though you can't feel it. When there is more air, it pushes more on the things around it. The fast moving spread out air over the top of the wing lets the air on the bottom of the wing push the wing.Up creating a lift.
It needs lift to fly
What are TWO things the sun provides?
Do you enjoy standing outside on a warm summer day and feeling the warmth from the sun on your skin? What about warming your hands on a frosty cold morning in the front of a fire? You're feeling heat. The sun provides us with light, but it also provides us with heat. Heat can be found in many different places. Anything that provides us with heat is a source of heat.
Heat and light
Whay did the author write this paragraph?
There are many kinds of pollution.Unfortunately, we are familiar with trash lying around the pavements and waste in our rivers. This is ground and water pollution. You might also see trash polluting the side of the road. Air pollution is when smoking chemicals end up in the air, which means it is not good for us to breathe in. There are other types of pollution as well, including light and noise pollution.Noise pollution is any sound that continues for a long time and is loud, unpleasant and harmful to our ears.
To explain the types of pollution
What is the central idea?
Evaporation is when the sun heats up water and rivers, lakes, or the ocean and turns into vapor or steam. The water vapor leaves the water and goes into the air. Water vapor in the air gets cold and changes back into liquid, forming clouds. This is called condensation. Try this at home. Pour a glass of cold water on a hot day and watch what happens. Water forms on the outside of the glass. The water didn't leak through the glass; it came from the air. Water vapor in the warm air turns back into liquid when it touches the cold glass. Precipitation occurs when so much water is condensed that the air cannot hold it anymore. The clouds get heavy and water falls back to the earth. When water falls back to earth, it goes back into the oceans, lakes, or rivers. When it ends up on land, it will soak up into the earth and become part of the groundwater that plants and animals used to drink.
in the water cycle water evaporates condenses and falls as precipitation
The Reader can infer that the poet is describing a what?
Upon one wild and windy night.
woo-oo , woo-ooo, woo-ooo, woo -ooo
We Jacks our lanterns, all did light.
The wind.---It surely knew.- four
Whistle and whistle.And Whist! now list!
Whirling and twirling with turn and twist.
The wind -- it softly blew.
It was the creepiest, scariest night.
woo-oo , woo-ooo, woo-ooo, woo -ooo
We held our breath, then lost it quiet.
The wing -- it surely knew-- for
Whistle and whistle.And Whist! now list!
woo-oo , woo-ooo, woo-ooo, woo -ooo
Whirling and twirling with turn and twist.
The wind -- it loudly blew.
Spooky Halloween night
Retell a summary of the story using the word FIRST, NEXT, THEN and FINALLY.
Since small Tom Thumb often got into trouble, his mother kept a closer watch upon him. One day he joins his father to plant seeds and rides in the horse's ear. Thomas sat down in the field to play the scarecrow, but a Raven carries him away. His parents search for him but are unable to find him. The Raven drops Tom at the castle of a giant, the cruel giant.A tiny boy, like a pill Tom, thrashes about so much in the giant stomach that he has thrown up into the sea. There he is eaten once more by a fish that is caught for King Arthur's supper.The cook is astonished to see this little man emerge from the fish. Tom then becomes King Arthur's helper. Tom soon becomes a favorite at King Arthur's Royal Court.
FIRST Tom is eaten by a giant
NEXT Tome went with his Father to plant seeds
THEN Tom is eaten by a fish and is taken to Kind authors court
FINALLY Tom gets eaten by a Raven while he plays
What was the authors point of writing this paragraph?
On the night of October 30th, 1938, thousands of Americans panicked when they believed that Martians had invaded Earth. What appeared to be breaking news about an alien invasion was in fact a radio drama based on HG Wells War of the Worlds, performed by Orson Welles and his Mercury Theater Players.Some listeners became angry once they realized they had been tricked, and the reaction to the broadcast sparked a national discussion about fake news, propaganda and the role of radio.
You cannot believe everything on the radio
What is the central idea?
Tails help an animal to move and swing. Monkeys, for example, balance in the trees, and Kangaroos use their tails to balance while they jump. Crocodiles use their tails to spin them around and around when they need to catch their prey, while scorpions often have poison in their tails. Beavers use their powerful tails to pat ground down hard and solid. Almost all fish use their tails for swimming and to steer their movement. Whales, dolphins, sharks, and many others use their tail as a short of rudder to steer them in a certain direction.Bird's tails are very important for steering as well.
Tails are helpful to many animals.
What does the final line tell the reader?
Dorothy summons the Winged Monkeys and tells them to carry her and Toto home, but they explain they can't cross the desert surrounding Oz.The soldier with the green whiskers informs Dorothy that Glinda, the Good Witch from the South, may be able to help her return home, so the travellers begin their journey to see Glenda's castle in Quadling country.On the way, the lion kills a giant spider who was terrorizing the animals in a forest. They ask him to become their king, which he agrees to do. After helping Dorothy return to Kansas, Dorothy called the weak monkeys 1/3 time to fly them over the hill to Glenda's castle.Glenda greets them but reveals That Dorothy's silver shoes can take her anywhere she wishes to go.She embraces her friends, all of whom will be returned to their new kingdoms through Glinda's 3 uses of the Golden Cap. Dorothy takes Toto in her arms, knocks her heels together three times, and wishes to return home instantly. She begins whirling through the air and rolling on the grass of the Kansas Prairie up to the farmhouse. She.Saying “I'm so glad to be home again.”
Dorothy was gone for awhile
How is a guitar able to produce sound?
With her body you can make lots of different sounds. Every sound that you make involves you moving a part of your body.Many musical instruments use movement to make sounds. Let us look at a few common musical instruments. A man plucking the strings on a guitar. When a guitar string is plucked, the string vibrates and causes a sound wave to occur. The sound is amplified or made louder by the air vibrating in the hollow inside of the guitar.We can then easily hear the sounds produced by the guitar. A drum has a thin membrane or skin that is stretched tightly over the opening of something hollow.As the drummer beat this membrane, the membrane vibrates and makes the sound we hear. The trumpet player blows through closed lips into the trumpet. This makes a buzzing sound which causes the air inside the trumpet to vibrate. The vibrating air causes sound we can hear.
A guitar string is plucked, and the string vibrates to cause a sound wave to occur.
What is the authors point in writing this paragrpah?
Online schooling is something that we are all facing at this very moment. Some people dislike it and others are enjoying it a lot. Both sides have their reasons and it might be conflicting to explain. Online learning transforms the current state of education. This argument is very real since when things are online, many.Marie disappear and there's less human error. Giving classes in person might hold a person back. People get sick. Pandemics happen, cars break. A lot of things can happen during presence learning that doesn't necessarily happen online. Online learning has the advantage of flexibility, saving money.Fitting things into one schedule and other advantages. Some of the disadvantages are that it involves a lot more discipline for people, the student may miss opportunities and school experiences and peer interactions. Students that do online learning miss out on opportunities such as prom, graduation, and school clubs.
Comparing and contrasting the benefits of online school vs in person schooling.