Main Idea (4TH GRADE)

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What is the main idea? Soccer is known in some countries as football. It is a popular sport across the world, with over 200 countries playing the sport. It is estimated that over 250 million people, both men and women, play soccer. The sport has been part of the Olympic games from 1900 to 1928 and from 1936 to today.
 What is the main idea?

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Soccer is a worldwide sport.

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What is the main idea? Floods can cause tremendous damage. They can ruin houses, roads and buildings. Floods can take down trees and cause mudslides. It often leaves mud, sand and debris behind. It can take months to clean up after a flood.

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Floods can cause a lot of damage.

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What is the main idea of a story?

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What the story is mostly about.

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What does the paragraph mainly tell about blood?

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How important blood is

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This paragraph mainly tells: why flute music charms snakes, why snakes can't hear sounds, how people really charm snakes, why snakes have no ears.

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how people really charm snakes

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What does the paragraph mainly tell about bats?

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how bats use sound

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This paragraph mainly tells: what Lincoln's ghost is like, when Eleanor Roosevelt's ghost walked, how many ghosts the White House has, how ghosts show when something will happen.

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what Lincoln's ghost is like

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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 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 the passage about Scrabble?

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Scrabble is challenging and fun.