The Coaster Club Challenge

What is a main idea?

• a piece of the text that gives more information about a topic

• what the text is mostly about

• reading between the lines

• using your background knowledge and text evidence to figure out what the author is saying

Which word means using schema and text evidence to figure out what the author is trying to say?

• main idea

• central idea

• supporting details

• inference

What is a supporting detail?

• what the text is mostly about

• statements from the text that give more information about the topic

• a minor detail about a topic

• the topic of a text

What is the main idea of "The Coaster Club Challenge?"

• Riding as many roller coasters as you can.

• Siblings trying to ride as many wooden roller coasters as they could to win a trophy.

• A family going to an amusement park to ride roller coasters together.

• Siblings being part of the American Coaster Club.

Which details support the main idea? Siblings riding as many wooden roller coasters as possible to win a trophy.

• "This summer the club was sponsoring "Wooden Coaster Summer," and the members who rode the most wooden coasters through August would win trophies."

• "Fourteen year old Eduardo shouted with exhilaration as the roller coaster whipped around the final turn, took two plunging dips, and rattled onto the platform."

• "I won't be jealous if you promise to share the trophy in secret between us."

• "When the seat bars lifted, Eduardo clambered out and turned to his parents in the car behind them."

In paragraph 1, the word exhilaration is used in the following sentence: "Fourteen-year-old Eduardo shouted with exhilaration as the roller coaster whipped around the final turn..." What does the word exhilaration mean?

• anger

• sadness

• terror

• excitement

By the end of the story, how many roller coasters did Tanya ride?

• 42

• 31

• 43

• 14

What happened after Eduardo saw his sister's disappointment?

• He got on the roller coaster.

• He did not get on the roller coaster.

• Eduardo and Tanya won a trophy.

• Eduardo and Tanya got off of the roller coaster.

How do the characters feel about riding roller coasters?

• They are afraid of roller coasters.

• They dislike roller coasters because they make them get sick.

• They are both excited to ride roller coasters.

• Roller coasters make them nervous because they are dangerous to ride.

Where did the story take place?

• on a roller coaster.

• on Monster-mania

• at an amusement park

• in a car