Main Idea and Reading strategies

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What might be the main idea of a book titled "Eat Your Fruits and Vegetables?"

Back

It's important to eat vegetables and fruit.

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Which chapter would have information about lions, tigers, and snow leopards? Options: "Lion, King of the Jungle", "How Tigers get their Stripes", "Save the Snow Leopards", "Big Cats of the World"

Back

Big Cats of the World

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SUPPORT

Back

to hold up and help

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What is a main idea?

Back

the central point of a piece of writing

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What is the topic of an essay about how important recycling is to our environment?

Back

recycling

Front

Main idea of an essay about the importance of recycling to our environment.

Back

Recycling is important to protect the environment.

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Where would you look to find the main idea of an article?

Back

There is no one place where the main idea is always found

Front

If you can't figure out the main idea of a passage, what should you do?

Back

Ask yourself general questions about the passage

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What inference can you make about main ideas in writing? Options: They're always based on fact and never opinion., To be effective, they should be supported by facts, In many essays, they have nothing to do with the topic, Most pieces of writing lack main ideas

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To be effective, they should be supported by facts

Front

What is the main idea of the passage about the octopus?

Back

How an octopus gets its food