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Central Idea

Authored by Linda Snyder

English

9th - 12th Grade

10 Questions

CCSS covered

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Topic plus a message about the topic is known as...

Theme

Central Idea

A Good Idea

Annoying

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CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.9

CCSS.RI.11-12.9

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Native Americans dried strips of meant pounded it into a paste, and then mixed it with fat. Sometimes they added berries and sugar. They then pressed it into small cakes called pemmican. Pemmican didn't spoil and provided lots of energy. What is the central idea of this passage?

Who uses pemmican today

How pemmican was used by Native Americans

What can be put into pemmican

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Microchips provided the power for wristwatches. they are also the brains in our computers, and they control robots. These chips are used in video games and space shuttles. They make cameras, radios, and tvs small and light.

What is the central idea of this passage?

How computers work

Why tvs are small

How microchips are used

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

The rain forest is home to many creatures. Monkeys, toucans and macaws live there. Butterflies and anteaters also live in the rain forest.

What is the central idea of this passage?

The rain forest is home to many creatures.

Sloths and tapirs are other animals that live in the rain forest.

Monkeys, toucans, and macaws live in the rain forest.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

"Are you done already?" his father asked. "it seems like you just got in the water." Jacob was finished with his bath in two minutes. He liked fast baths so to have more time to play. In fact, Jacob never took a long bath.

What is the central idea?

Jacob never showers

Jacob likes to take fast baths

Jacob is very clean

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

Do you ever wonder how you taste things? Yow owe your sense of taste to your taste buds. We have 9,000 taste buds just on the tongue alone. There are also taste buds on the back of your throat.

What is the central idea of this passage?

That we taste through our nose.

We can only taste sweet things.

Taste buds are in multiple places.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Were you born after 1985? If so, how long do you expect to live? Most people born after 1985 can expect to live more than 70 years. Of course, this is just a guess based on past records.

What is the central idea?

How long you might expect to live.

Past records give you information.

Why people live to be 70.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

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