Q1 Skills Review

Q1 Skills Review

Make sure that you have your reading notebook and notes ready for the review!

What is Main Idea?

Main idea= Topic + Point

The topic tells who or what the text is mainly about.

The point is what the author is trying to say about the point.

Multiple Choice

Which choice below is a main idea sentence for My Librarian is a camel?

• Children

• are given books

• Children in different places are given books in different ways.

• One camel carries books, another carries the tent.

Multiple Choice

What is the purpose of a detail?

• It supports or proves the main idea.

• It makes the text better.

• It makes the text longer.

Summarizing Nonfiction text

A summary of nonfiction should include main idea sentences.

Multiple Select

What is a way to figure out what belongs in a summary?

• Think about what happened in the text from beginning, middle, and end.

• Start at the middle of the text.

• Only include info from the beginning and end.

How do we figure out the meaning of words we don't know?

Context Clues!!

Multiple Choice

What is the meaning of the underlined word in the sentence?

He killed snakes when he was a baby. Hercules was no ordinary baby boy.

• smart or intelligent

• curious

• regular or normal

• friendly

Open Ended

What does the setting of the story tell?

What is theme?

Theme is the lesson or message that the author would like the reader to learn.

Multiple Select

How can you figure out theme?

• Focus on what the main character does, and what happens after.

• Use the main characters name in the theme

• Think about the lesson you should learn from the main character.

• Retell exactly what the main character did.