Main idea ELA

What is the main idea?

Bobby loved his toy train bobby was at the park and lost his toy train bobby was so sad.

• Toy train

• bobby

• love

• park

what is the main idea?

Zikeya loved her phone she always had where every she went. one day it went missing and she never saw it again.

• she never saw it again

• Zikeya

• Lost her phone

• missing

what is a main idea?

• Main idea is what the story is about

• Main idea are key details of a story

• Main idea is a important text in a story

• Main idea is a text in the story that is not important

What's your favorite food mine is tacos

• tacos

• shrimp

• sea food

• potatoes

sally ate taco bell when sally got home she didn't feel good what is the problem?

Select answers to describe

• She ate taco bell

• she didn't feel good

• she went home

• her name is sally

Khouri was not feeling well after he ate McDonalds burger he looking in the burger and found hair.

what is Khouri's problem

• the hair made him feel bad and his head was hurting

• McDonalds is gross and he rather eat Wendy's

• He found hair in his food and he didn't fell well

• his body was hurting from soccer game and he broke his leg

Weather reporters have to give out a lot of information. That's why they use pictures. The pictures help them tell us about the weather without using so many words. Weather reporters need to know where the cold air is. They need to know where the warm air is. They have to know where it is raining and what types of clouds are in the area. Their reports need to be correct, but they also need to be short. The pictures help weather reporters get the information out in a fast way.
Which sentence best describes the main idea of the paragraph?

• Weather reporters need to know where the cold air is
• Pictures help weather reporters get information out in a fast way
• Their reports need to be correct, but they also need to be short
• They have to know where it is raining and what types of clouds are in the area

One dinosaur had a brain that weighed about as much as three pencils.  Its body weighed ten tons and was over twenty feet in length.  As you can guess, this dinosaur did not think too clearly.  It wasn't the world's brightest dinosaur!  What is the main idea of this paragraph?

• How big one dinosaur was
• What one dinosaur's brain was like
• Why one dinosaur had a small brain
• how pretty dinosaurs were

Aaron and Angel are friends. They look alike. They talk alike. Sometimes the dress alike. People think Aaron is Angel. People think Angel is Aaron. The boys think it is funny.

• Aaron and Angel are alike in many ways.
• Aaron is older than Angel.
• Angel is bigger than Aaron.

What kind of sentence tells the main idea of a paragraph?

• supporting detail
• topic sentence
• example sentence
• transition sentence