Main Idea

Main idea and details

How can you determine the main idea of a reading selection?

Essential Questions

How can you determine the main idea of a reading selection?

Bats

Some kind of bats eat many insects. Some bats can eat up to 600 mosquitoes in an hour. Bats are helpful to the environment. Bats help us by eating insects. Without bats, we would have too many insects.

Multiple Choice

What is the main idea of the passage?

• Bat are mammals.

• Bats eat 600 mosquitoes in one hour.

• Bats eat many insects.

Read the passage Bats and choose the sentence that best supports the main idea that bats eat many insects.

1. Some kind of bats eat many insects.
2. Some bats can eat up to 600 mosquitoes in an hour.
3. Bats are helpful to the environment.
4. Bats help us by eating insects.
5. Without bats, we would have too many insects.

Multiple Choice

What sentences supports the main idea that bats eat many insects?

• sentence 1

• sentence 2

• sentence 3

• sentence 4

• sentence 5

Multiple Choice

The main idea is what the passage is ____ about.

• Partly

• Mostly

The Main idea is what the

passage is mostly about.

While reading this passage please look out for the main idea?