Central Idea

Central Idea

See if you can guess the definition...

Open Ended

Define Central Idea...

Central Idea

• The MAIN idea 

• What the story or the article is MOSTLY about

Multiple Choice

It was raining, and Dr. Naismith was trying to keep his students active. He wanted them playing a vigorous game that would keep them moving. He wrote out the rules for a game with peach baskets fixed to ten-foot elevated tracks. Naismith's students played against one another, passing the ball around and shooting it into the peach baskets. Dribbling wasn't a part of the original game. Also it took a while to realize that the game would run more smoothly if the bottoms of the baskets were removed.

• Invention of Basketball

• Invention of Cookies

• Invention of Cars

Multiple Choice

That said, the key to making perfect cookies is merely a matter of preparation and precision. To begin with, read your cookie recipe thoroughly before baking. Make sure that you have all the necessary ingredients before you continue. Next, use good tools and utensils. By using good tools you minimize mistakes and improve the quality of your product. Last, use top quality ingredients. If you use poor quality materials, you'll create inferior products. So, to make perfect cookies you should use the highest quality materials available.

• How to ice a cake

• how to make cookies

• how to study

Multiple Choice

Could it be the hummingbird, the only bird capable of backward flight? Hummingbirds have many unique flight habits that distinguish them from other birds. Most birds flap their wings up and down to fly, but the hummingbird moves its wings forward and backward very rapidly in a figure eight pattern. This allows the hummingbird to hover in position. They can also fly upside down and move about very rapidly.

• Bears can be scary

• Hummingbird fly in a unique way

• Dolphins can swim in unique ways

Fiction Vs Nonfiction

• Can you remember the difference between them? 

• Let's find out...

Multiple Choice

Fiction means it is a fake story or about something that didn't happen

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Nonfiction is about a story that really happened

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

An example of Fiction would be a newspaper

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

An example of Fiction would be Diary of a Wimpy Kid

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

An example of nonfiction would be an biography, a book about someone's life

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

An example of Nonfiction would be The Babysitters Club

• true

• false

Supporting Details

• Details that SUPPORT the central idea

• a fact from the text that proves something is the central idea. 

Let's practice

• We are going to look back at the cookie text...

Multiple Choice

What is a supporting detail for the text about cookies?

• This allows the hummingbird to hover in position.

• He wrote out the rules for a game with peach baskets fixed to ten-foot elevated tracks

• That said, the key to making perfect cookies is merely a matter of preparation and precision

Today's Assignment

• Central Idea Practice on Quizizz

• If you have your book, read for 10-15 minutes today

• Review your vocabulary on Quizlet

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