Main Idea

Main Idea

What is the Main Idea?

The main idea is what the text is mostly about.

Multiple Choice

The Main Idea tells me what the text is mostly about.

• True

• False

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Dolphins are mammals that live in the

ocean. Mammals are different than fi sh,

reptiles or birds. As a mammal, dolphins

breathe oxygen, even though they live

in water. Because they are mammals, a

dolphin mother gives birth to a live baby,

unlike reptiles and birds who lay eggs. A

dolphin mother also feeds her baby milk

like other mammals.

Multiple Select

Finding the Main Idea

Write the main idea of the paragraph in the large oval below. Write the

supporting ideas in the small ovals.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

The story tells of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

in 1900. The story tells of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Dorothy, a girl from Kansas, who gets taken by a tornado to Oz, a magical land. In this passage, Dorothy wants to return home to Kansas, so she has gone to the Emer-ald City to ask the Wizard of Oz for help.

11. The Wonderful City of Oz

Even with eyes protected by the green spectacles, Dorothy and her friends were at first dazzled by the brilliancy of the wonderful City. The streets were lined with beautiful houses all built of green marble and studded everywhere with sparkling emeralds. They walked over a pavement of the same green marble, and where the blocks were joined together were rows of emeralds, set closely,and

glittering in the brightness of the sun. The window panes were of green glass; even the sky above the City had a green tint, and the rays of the sun were green.

• Dorothy was a girl from Kansas.

• The Emerald City was a beautiful city all in green.

• The pavement was made of green marble.

• The window panels were green.