DETERMINING IMPORTANCE

DETERMINING IMPORTANCE

Multiple Choice

If you have a tree planted in your front yard, and it has roots, a trunk, leaves and a squirrel in it, what would be the most important part of that tree to keep it standing?

• The squirrel

• The dirt

• The trunk

• The roots

Multiple Choice

What would be least important to bring if you are going on a picnic in the summer that is by a lake.

• Extra boots, a jacket, bug spray, food, a fishing rod

• Sunscreen, bug spray, a cooler with cold drinks, food

• a television, and a gaming station

• All the above are important to bring to a summer picnic in a lake.

Multiple Choice

T^{here are five houses in a row and in five different colors.}

^{In each house lives a person from a different country.}

^{Each person drinks a certain drink, plays a certain sport, and keeps a certain pet.}

^{No two people drink the same drink, play the same sport, or keep the same pet.}

The Brit lives in a red house ~ The Swede keeps dogs

`~ The Dane drinks tea ~ ~ The green house is on the left of the white house ~ The green house owner drinks coffee ~ The person who plays polo rears birds ~ The owner of the yellow house plays hockey ~ The man living in the house right in the center drinks milk ~ The Norwegian lives in the first house ~ The man who plays baseball lives next to the man who keeps cats ~ The man who keeps horses lives next to the one who plays hockey ~ The man who plays billiards drinks beer ~ The German plays soccer ~ The Norwegian lives next to the blue house ~ The man who plays baseball has a neighbor who drinks water.

• The Swede

• The Dane

• The Norwegian

• The German

• The Brit

DETERMINING IMPORTANCE

• When you read an article, you need to determine what the author really wants you to know -

MAIN IDEA

• When you read an article, you need to determine what the author really wants you to know -

• Once you figure out what the author wants you to know, you will be able to figure out what the main idea and supporting details in the article are

• If you figure those out, you can write a good, concise summary

SUMMARY

• A summary is a short paragraph, paraphrasing only the most important parts of an article, you don't add your opinion or other details that are not written in the article you read.

Multiple Choice

To determine importance in an informational text you need to

• Figure out what an author is trying to tell you

• Guess what the article is about

• Read the first sentence in every paragraph

• Only need to read the headings

Multiple Choice

When you are determining importance, you are looking for

• the hook of an article

• names of people

• the main ideas and details of a article

• none of the above

Multiple Choice

The main idea is

• always in the first sentence of a paragraph

• In the headings of an article

• Always in the title

• supported by details

Multiple Choice

A summary contains

• Only the main idea and details, stated in your own words

• A cut and paste of the main ideas and details

• Your opinion of the article

• Any other knowledge you have on a topic