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Finding Central Idea and Evidence Practice

Finding Central Idea and Evidence Practice

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7th Grade

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CCSS
RI.7.2, RI.5.5, RI.7.6

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Bryce Hespe

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Finding Central Idea and Evidence Practice

Seminar 7​

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I will be able to find evidence to support my claims. ​

Evidence

I will be able to read a passage and identify the central idea as well as any supporting ideas there may be.

Central Idea

Today's Objectives

Some text here about the topic of discussion

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Multiple Choice

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 Imagine testing glass by throwing chickens at it? Sometimes fast moving airplanes fly through flocks of birds. If the birds hit the windshield of a plane, the glass could shatter and cause a crash. Airplane manufacturers have made a chicken cannon that fires rubber chickens at glass windshields. If the windshield doesn't break when the rubber chicken hits it, the designers know that the glass can withstand the force of a real crash.
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Why birds can be dangerous to airplanes
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How a chicken cannon checks glass
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How the Chicken cannon works
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How big a bird can hit a plane and bring it down

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Multiple Choice

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Most people think that gorillas are mean, but actually they are shy. It seems that such a huge animal with very large teeth would be aggressive. Hollywood movies help convey this image of the scary, ferocious gorilla. In fact, gorillas only attack if they are provoked. 
This author belives that:
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Gorillas are misunderstood as vicious animals.
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Gorillas are mean animals
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Gorillas don't like other animals.

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Multiple Choice

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What is the Central Idea of the passage?
What's that humming sound?  Could it be hummingbird, the only bird capable of backward flight?  Hummingbirds have many unique flight habits that distinguish them from other birds.  Most birds flap their wings up and down to fly, but the hummingbird moves its wings forward and backward very rapidly in a figure eight pattern.  This allows the hummingbird to hover in position, fly upside down, and move about very rapidly.  And while other birds have to push off with their feet to begin flying, and work their ways up to their top speeds, the hummingbird can both start flying at maximum speed and stop flying instantaneously.  After you've seen a hummingbird in flight, it's unlikely that you'll mistake them for another bird.
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Birds and hummingbirds are very different.
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Hummingbirds make a humming sound.
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Hummingbirds wings fly in figure eight patterns.
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The hummingbird flys in a totally unique and unusual way.

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Open Ended

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What is the central idea of this text?

HINT: What is the topic?

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Open Ended

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Use quotation marks to cite the part of the sentence in the text indicating that India once had a large elephant population.

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Open Ended

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Provide evidence of two ongoing problems that Indian elephants face.

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Finding Central Idea and Evidence Practice

Seminar 7​

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