Thematic and Central Idea Review

What is the difference between a theme and central idea.

• The central idea is found in fictional text and expresses what the story is mainly about.  Theme is found in informational text and is the author's overall message or lesson about life.
• The central idea is found in informational text and expresses the author's overall message or lesson about life.  The Theme is found in fictional text and expresses what the text is mainly about.
• The central idea is found in informational text and expresses what the text is mainly about.  The theme is found in fictional text and expresses the author's overall message and lesson about life.
• None of the Above

Which statement in explicit?

• Your home has an unusual smell.
• Opening a window may be good for the house.
• Would you for me to bring some air freshener to your house?
• Your house stinks.

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CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

Which statement is the implicit statement?

• I want to break up with you.
• I would prefer it if we saw other people.
• I don't want to be with you anymore.
• We are over.

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CCSS.L.2.4A

CCSS.SL.2.3

What is the difference between explicit and implicit meanings?

• Explicit meanings are indirectly stated and implicit meanings are directly stated.
• Explicit meanings are directly stated and implicit meanings are indirectly stated.
• Both
• None of the Above

What does central idea mean?

• important supporting details in the text

• main message of the text

• key details important to understanding the text

• the title of a text

Which of the following statements is the BEST definition of THEME?

• the author's message or the univeral lesson that is implied.
• the sequence of events or actions in a story
• the conversations between characters in a story
• the perspective from which the story is told

Identify possible ways an author presents theme in a literary work.

• Through the description and details (imagery)

• Through conversations of the characters (dialogue)

• Actions and events in the story (plot)

• All of the above

School uniforms are far cheaper than the currently popular fashions. Many students work long hours at a paying job instead of doing homework because they feel they have to "keep up appearances." If students wore uniforms, there would be no need for most of them to have jobs that take away from their study time.

This passage is mostly about?

• popular fashions being expensive
• school uniforms being a good idea.
• students working many hours at jobs.
• teens enjoying wearing uniforms.

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CCSS.RI.2.2

CCSS.RI.2.6

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. What is the central idea?

• Why birds can be dangerous to airplanes

• How a chicken cannon checks glass

• How the Chicken cannon works

• How big a bird can hit a plane and bring it down

Every year hungry deer do millions of dollars' worth of damage to young pine trees. Scientists in Washington have found a way to protect the trees. They use a substance called selenium. Selenium produces a bad smell when dissolved. A bit of this element is put in the ground near trees. Rain dissolves the selenium, and the trees absorb it. The bad smell keeps the deer away until the trees are fully grown. What is the central idea?

• Deer damage trees every year

• Selenium in an important mineral

• How we can protect trees from deer

• Why deer eat pine trees