Main Idea vs Theme Flashcard

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What is the paragraph mostly about? Options: how long you might expect to live, about the health of females, why people live to be 70, tells that people live to be 100

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how long you might expect to live

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What is this selection mainly about? Someday we will all have robots that will be our personal servants. They will look and behave much like real humans. We will be able to talk to these mechanical helpers and they will be able to respond in kind! Amazingly, the robots of the future will be able to learn from experience. They will be smart, strong, and untiring workers whose only goal will be to make our lives easier.

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Someday we will have robots that will be our personal servants.

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What is the main idea of this paragraph? Yesterday was my birthday. When I woke up, I noticed my brother Josh hung up a big sign that said,"Happy Birthday, Charles!" Mom made spaghetti for dinner.
It's my favorite food in the whole world. My friend Dave came over and handed me a wrapped gift. I wondered what it was. It was a new basketball! I had a great day.

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Charles had a great birthday.

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What is a key detail?

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An important point in the text that can help us find the main idea

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What is the MAIN IDEA of the passage? Dogs are great pets. They can learn tricks and they are very loyal to their owners. Dogs can keep you company when you take a walk, play with you when no one else is around, or even make you laugh with the silly things they do. Dogs are cute and fun. Everyone should own a dog.

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To tell you why dogs are great pets.

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What lesson can be learned from Giselle's sleepover with Lindy and Taejah?

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Friends prove themselves by their actions

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What is the moral of the story about Hannah and Valerie?

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One good deed deserves another.

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BONUS!!!
You can get clues about a story's theme from: setting of the story, lesson the character learns, the mood a character, way a character looks

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lesson the character learns

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Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower; 
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf,
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day
Nothing gold can stay. 
What is the central theme of this poem?

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Wonderful and beautiful things only last a short while

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A theme should be a statement, not just one word.

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TRUE