Main Idea Guided Practice

Main Idea Guided Practice

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Multiple Choice

Pizza is a favorite food in the United States. Pizza is from Italy in the late 1800s. It became popular in the United States after World War II. People like to add toppings. Some toppings are pepperoni, sausage, and vegetables. These toppings give pizza more flavor. Pepperoni is America’s favorite topping.

• Pizza is made from flour.

• Pizza was first made in Italy.

• You should eat the delicious pizza.

• Pizza is a popular meal in the United States.

Open Ended

What is the topic of this passage?

Pizza is a favorite food in the United States. Pizza is from Italy in the late 1800s. It became popular in the United States after World War II. People like to add toppings. Some toppings are pepperoni, sausage, and vegetables. These toppings give pizza more flavor. Pepperoni is America’s favorite topping.

Open Ended

Type one supporting detail to back up that "Pizza is a popular meal in the United States" from the passage:

Pizza is a favorite food in the United States. Pizza is from Italy in the late 1800s. It became popular in the United States after World War II. People like to add toppings. Some toppings are pepperoni, sausage, and vegetables. These toppings give pizza more flavor. Pepperoni is America’s favorite topping.

Multiple Choice

Living things are organisms with certain characteristics. They need water, food, and air to survive. They grow and change, and they move on their own. Living things reproduce, or make more of themselves. For example, plants and animals are living things. Plants make their own food and animals eat plants or other animals for food.

• There are four characteristics of living things.

• Animals make their own food.

• All living things need sunlight.

• Plants eat other plants.

Open Ended

What is the topic of this passage?

Living things are organisms with certain characteristics. They need water, food, and air to survive. They grow and change, and they move on their own. Living things reproduce, or make more of themselves. For example, plants and animals are living things. Plants make their own food and animals eat plants or other animals for food.

Open Ended

Type a supporting detail for "There are four characteristics of living things" from the passage:

Living things are organisms with certain characteristics. They need water, food, and air to survive. They grow and change, and they move on their own. Living things reproduce, or make more of themselves. For example, plants and animals are living things. Plants make their own food and animals eat plants or other animals for food.

Multiple Choice

Have you ever seen a giraffe at the zoo? Giraffes are the tallest animals in the world. The average height of a giraffe is 16-18 feet tall. This animal has a very long neck and legs. Giraffes eat the leaves from tall trees. Other animals cannot reach that high. Male giraffes are even taller than female giraffes.

• Giraffes are extremely tall animals.

• Giraffes don’t sleep very much

• Giraffes are at the zoo.

• Giraffes eat leaves

Open Ended

Type one supporting detail to back up "Giraffes are extremely tall animals" for the following passage:

Have you ever seen a giraffe at the zoo? Giraffes are the tallest animals in the world. The average height of a giraffe is 16-18 feet tall. This animal has a very long neck and legs. Giraffes eat the leaves from tall trees. Other animals cannot reach that high. Male giraffes are even taller than female giraffes.

Multiple Choice

One way to stay healthy is to exercise. Exercise helps you feel better, lose weight, and grow stronger.Taking a walk is a form of exercise. It helps you go outside and get fresh air. Playing a sport is another form of exercise. This is a fun way to be active. Taking classes at a gym is a way to be healthy and fit. There are many types of exercise you can do to improve your health.

• Choose a fun way to exercise.

• Playing a sport is a fun way to exercise.

• If you are not happy, exercise will fix it

• There are many ways to make yourself feel better.

Multiple Choice

Hurricanes are large storms. They begin over the ocean. They gather heat and energy from the water. Hurricanes move slowly to land as they grow stronger. Hurricanes are dangerous because of their size. They are also dangerous because of high winds and big waves. Hurricanes can bring flooding, power outages, and tornadoes.

• Hurricanes are summer storms

• Hurricanes are one type of storm.

• Hurricanes are large, dangerous storms

• Hurricanes are just like tornadoes and floods.

Multiple Choice

"Are you already done, son?" his father asked. "It seems like you just got in the water." Jacob was finished with his bath in less than two minutes. He got his body and hair wet, rubbed some grape scented shampoo on his hair, washed his body with soap, and quickly rinsed it off. He liked to take fast baths so he would have more time to play. In fact, Jacob never took a long bath. To him, the faster the bath, the better.

• Jacob is very clean

• Jacob uses grape flavored shampoo.

• Jacob likes to take fast baths

• Jacob never took showers.

Multiple Choice

Lisa knew all of the seven dwarfs except one. She remembered Grumpy, Sleepy and Bashful. And of course she couldn't forget Doc and Dopey. Dopey was her favorite. But there was one she just could not remember. Let's see. There's also Sneezy, and that's six. But she could not remember that last one. What was his name?

• Dopey was Lisa's favorite dwarf.

• Lisa could not remember the name of one of the dwarfs

• There were seven dwarfs in all.

• Lisa had a good memory

Multiple Choice

This was Kathy's first babysitting job. She was so excited, but she was really nervous. Kathy's parents made her attend a babysitting workshop before she could babysit her neighbor's five-year-old son, Matthew. Kathy knew this was a lot of responsibility, but she thought she was ready. Kathy marched confidently to Matthew's house and waved goodbye to Matthew's parents. It seemed as soon as his parents left, Matthew fell and hit his chin on the coffee table. Without panicking, she remembered what she learned in her babysitting class and applied first-aid.

• Matthew should not run in the house.

• Kathy is ready to babysit.

• Kathy needs to attend more babysitting workshops.

• Coffee tables can be dangerous.

Identifying Questions Guided Practice

Multiple Select

Put a check by each question that is answered in this passage:

In addition to the light emitted by a flame's blackbody radiation, the electron structure of some elements and compounds absorbs the blackbody energy, exciting electrons to higher energy levels. As these electrons drop back to lower energy levels, light is emitted at particular colors. Sodium, for example, produces a distinctive yellow color. Arsenic produces a blue color. This phenomenon is the basis for the chemical analytical method of emission spectroscopy. In its simplest form — the flame test — an unknown substance is heated in a flame, and the emitted color is observed.

• What color does sodium produce?

• What color does arsenic produce?

• What is the basis for emission spectroscopy?

• What is emission spectroscopy?

Multiple Select

Identify all of the questions that are answered in this passage:

A fire consumes fuel. To be ignited (that is, to catch fire), all fuels must be heated to a certain temperature. Fuels can be solids, liquids or gases. Regardless of their ignition temperatures, gases can also be ignited directly. Solids and liquids, however, need to be heated to a high enough temperature to produce a combustible gas. For dry wood, the ignition temperature is 300 degrees Celsius (572 degrees Fahrenheit). When dry wood is heated to this temperature, it releases hydrocarbons that combine with oxygen in the air and ignite. Cotton has a higher ignition temperature. A cotton shirt will not ignite until it is heated to 407 degrees Celsius (765 degrees Fahrenheit). Paper has a lower ignition temperature and will ignite at temperatures as low as 218–246 degrees Celsius (424–475 degrees Fahrenheit). Natural gas (methane) has a surprisingly high ignition temperature of 580 degrees Celsius (1,076 degrees Fahrenheit).

• What does a fire consume?

• What forms can fuel be in?

• What is the ignition temperature for dry wood?

• What is the ignition temperature for cotton?

• What is the ignition temperature for paper?

Multiple Choice

Identify one question that is answered in the following passage:

Once a fire has been ignited, the heat generated by the reaction sustains the fire by keeping the fuel at or above its ignition temperature. Thus, a fire will keep burning, unless it is cooled below the ignition temperature of the fuel or runs out of fuel or oxidizer. This three-part formula for fire is called the fire triangle. Traditional firefighting methods focus on eliminating one of the sides of the fire triangle.

• How do you ignite a fire?

• How effective is the three-part formula?

• What do traditional firefighting methods focus on?

• How often is fire ignited during the dry season?