Summary/Main Idea Practice

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Which of the following statements about SUMMARIZING is true?

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The Summary is what the passage is mostly about.

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What genre is informational text?

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Non-Fiction

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What is a summary?

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a short explanation of a text

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Main idea of the passage: I can't wait until this weekend! We’re going to my grandparents’ house and my entire family will be there. I will spend most of my time playing games with my cousins. We always have such a good time together! The day goes by so fast, and by the end we are all exhausted... but we still don’t want to leave!

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The author enjoys spending time with her family.

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What is the main idea of the passage about soccer players?

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Soccer players learn many skills when playing soccer.

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What kind of sentence tells the main idea of a paragraph? Options: supporting detail, topic sentence, example sentence, transition sentence

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topic sentence

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Summarize the passage about product labels and ingredients.

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Labels show what goes into food, clothing, and other products. A simple product may have many ingredients.

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What is the difference between Main Idea and Key Details?

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Main Idea is what the passage is about, and Supporting Details help describe/explain the Main Idea.

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Which detail doesn't belong in the context of making things with Legos? Options: You can very easily build a column. You can make a castle, a monkey, or a car. It hurts to step on Legos with bare feet. There are even kits available to make Star Wars ships.

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It hurts to step on Legos with bare feet.

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What is the best summary of the passage? Dogs are not only good pets, they can also help solve crimes! Police dogs have been trained to help policemen and women do their jobs. For example, since dogs are good at picking up scents, some dogs have been trained to track criminals or missing people. They can also detect bombs and other explosives.

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Police dogs have been trained to solve crimes by following scents.