Main Idea and Details (Formative)

What is a main idea?

• The purpose of the passage

• It is the same as the topic

• A minor detail

• The most important idea about a topic that a particular text or paragraph conveys

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CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

Read the following details and determine the main idea of the words.

-jersey

-grass

-bleachers

-hotdogs

• Watching a game at a stadium

• Playing sports

• football

• Eating dinner at the game

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CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

Key details give important information to support the main idea

• true

• false

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CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

"They felt like heros in an instant. Here was a gorgeous triumph; they were missed; tears were being shed; accusing memories of unkindness to these poor lost lads were rising up, and unveiling regrets and remorse were being indulged; and best of all, the departed were the talk of the whole town, and the envy of all the boys, as far as this dazzling notoriety was concerned. This was fine. It was worth while to be pirate, after all."

What is the main idea of this paragraph?

• how to become popular

• Feeling like a hero and being missed as a pirate.

• Pirates are heros

• Being the talk of the town because they are pirates

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CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

"As twilight drew on, the ferryboat went back to her accustomed business and the skiffs disappeared. The pirates returned to camp. They were jubilant with vanity over their new grandeur and the illustrious trouble they were making. They caught fish, cooked supper and ate it, and then fell to guessing at what village was thinking and saying about them..."

What is the main idea of this paragraph?

• Pirates cooking fish

• Pirates cause trouble

• Catching dinner and thinking about what the village was saying about them.

• Pirates return to camp

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CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

"Good point," said Arno, "but don't forget rock-climbing! We learned lots of skills-cooperation, patience, communication. Since we all climbed Mount Sky Rock, and our camp is named for it, I think that would make a great mural!" There were shouts of "yeah" and "good idea!" Caleb added a scene to his sketch showing a trio of campers reaching the summit of Mount Sky Rock, their arms raised in victory. "

What is the main idea of this paragraph?

• Arno suggesting to create a mural about rock climbing.

• How rock climbing can teach you cooperation, patience, and communication.

• Murals are a great way to make people happy

• Mount Sky Rock is the tallest mountain on earth

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CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

"They found plenty of things to be delighted with, but nothing to be astonished at. They discovered that the island was about three miles long and a quarter of a mile wide, and that the shore it lay closets to was only separated from it by a narrow channel hardly two hundred yards wide. They took a swim about every hour, so it was close upon the middle of the afternoon when they got back to camp."

What is the main idea of this paragraph?

• The time the arrived back at camp

• Discovering all the things on the island astonished them

• While exploring the island they discover a channel which they go swimming every hour before they go back to camp

• finding a channel of water

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CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

"But now this mysterious sound became more pronounced and forced a recognition. The boys started, glanced at each other, and then each assumed a listening attitude. There was a long silence, profound and unbroken; then a deep, sullen boom came floating down out of the distance. "

What is the key detail in this paragraph?

• "sullen boom came floating down out of the distance"

• this mysterious sound became more pronounced and forced

• the boys started, glanced at each-other, and then each assumed a listening attitude

• There was a long silence, profound and unbroken

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CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.2

• How to cook bacon properly.

• Tom and Huck were fishing for breakfast and caught lots of fish.

• Showing Joe how to fish

• Joe getting impatient because he couldn't wait for the fish

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CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2