Central Idea and Key Details

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What is a topic?

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the general subject of a text

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What is the story mainly about?

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How microchips are used

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

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Soccer players learn many skills when playing soccer.

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Why are key details important?

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They help me understand the main idea

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What supports the main idea?

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details

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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 central idea of the passage: “The rain forest is home to many creatures. Monkeys, toucans and macaws live in the rain forest. Butterflies and anteaters also live in the rain forest.”

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The rain forest is home to many creatures.

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The topic of a text can often be found in the title or in the opening paragraph of the text.

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True

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What supports the main idea?

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details

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The job of key details is to do what?

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support, or back up, the main idea