Central Idea

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Find the central idea:
 Being a clown isn't all fun and games.  Rodeo clowns expose themselves to great danger every time they perform.  When cowboys dismount or are bucked off of bulls at riding competitions, rodeo clowns jump in front of the bulls and motion wildly to get their attention.  In this way rodeo clowns provide an alternate target, and in doing so protect the rider.  So you see, sometimes clowning around can be serious business.

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Rodeo clowns protect cowboys by putting themselves in danger.

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What does the author want you to learn about the passage?

Do you ever wonder how you taste things? You owe your sense of taste to your taste buds. We have 9,000 taste buds just on the tongue alone. There are also taste buds on the roof of your mouth. You even have taste buds on the back of your throat.

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Taste buds are found in different places.

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This passage is mainly about? Options: who uses pemmican today, what can be put into pemmican, how pemmican was made by Native Americans

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how pemmican was made by Native Americans

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Which text feature can give you clues about the central idea? Options: Title, Headings, Pictures, All of these

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All of these

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The CENTRAL IDEA of a nonfiction text needs to always be supported with...

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Supporting details

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What is the best question to ask yourself when you are trying to find the central idea of a text?

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What point is the author trying to make?

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What is the central idea of the passage?
Thomas Edison’s life span is known as “The age of Edison.” If it wasn’t for Thomas Edison, we might not have electric lights, telephones, movie cameras, or computers! Think of all the ways these great products affect our lives today. Edison held over 1,000 patents and received dozens of awards during his lifetime for his inventions and contributions to science.

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Thomas Edison's inventions still impact society today

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What is the central idea of the passage? The law was not exactly fair in Europe during the Middle Ages. Back then, you could blame someone in your town for committing a crime. The “criminal” could then challenge you to a fight to prove his guilt or innocence. If you lost the fight, you were charged as a liar and the criminal was believed to be innocent. If you won, the criminal was believed to be guilty.

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Laws of the Middle Ages were unfair.

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What is another word for SUPPORTING DETAILS used to identify the CENTRAL IDEA of a text?

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Text Evidence