Main Idea and Details

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What is the main idea?

• Did you know there is junk in space?
• This junk is made up of old satellites, rockets, and even tools lost by astronauts.
• Space junk can hit a spacecraft and damage it.
• Scientists are working on ideas for getting rid of space junk.

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Did you know there is junk in space?

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What is the main idea of a paragraph, passage, or story?

Back

It is the most important thought or what the passage, paragraph, or story is mostly about.

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How are the main idea and details connected?

Back

The details support the main idea.

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What is the main idea of the paragraph?

Community names often have words for water in them. For example, Riverview is a town in Kansas. Running Springs is in California. You'll find Bay City in Michigan.

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Community names often have words for water in them.

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What is the main idea of the paragraph?

Some laws are really silly. In Idaho, you can get in trouble if you fish from a camel's back. In Arizona, there's a fine if you let a donkey fall asleep in your bathtub. In Vermont, it's against the law to whistle underwater.

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Some laws are really silly.

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What is the main idea of the paragraph?

Goats help prevent fires in California. In parts of the state, the fall season is very dry. Hot winds blow over the land. The smallest spark can start a fire. The fires spread easily through grasses and bushes. So people use goats to eat the plants as a form of fire control.

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Goats help prevent fires in California.

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What is the main idea of the picture? Options: Kids smiling, Kids singing Christmas carols around a Christmas tree, Kids dancing, Kids having a contest on who can build the best snowman

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Kids singing Christmas carols around a Christmas tree

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What is the main idea of the picture? Options: Kids racing to see who can make the best cookie, Kids making sugar cookies using cookie cutters, Three girls matching aprons, Kids helping clean the kitchen

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Kids making sugar cookies using cookie cutters

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What is the main idea of the picture? Options: Kids smiling because their Christmas tree is beautiful, Kids hanging up decorations around their house, A family decorating their Christmas tree, A mom helping her kids sell Christmas cookies

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A family decorating their Christmas tree

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What is the main idea of the picture?

• Students raising their hands to answer a question
• Students reading books in class
• A teacher is teaching her class
• Students listening to their favorite song

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A teacher is teaching her class