Competition

Floods can cause tremendous damage.  They can ruin houses, roads and buildings. Floods can take down trees and cause mudslides. It often leaves mud, sand and debris behind.  It can take months to clean up after a flood.
 What is the main idea?

• Floods can cause a lot of damage.
• Floods cause mudslides.
• Floods damage houses and roads. 

Soccer is known in some countries as football. It is a popular sport across the world, with over 200 countries playing the sport. It is estimated that over 250 million people, both men and women, play soccer. The sport has been part of the Olympic games from 1900 to 1928 and from 1936 to today.
 What is the main idea?

• Soccer is important at the Olympics.
• Soccer is a worldwide sport.
• Soccer is also called football.
• Soccer is played by men and women.

What is the central message of a story?

• The effect of an action

• The cause of an action

• The lesson, moral, or message

• The differences between things

What is an inference?

• A final decision

• What the story is mostly about

• The author's belief

• An educated guess

When thinking about cause and effect, what is cause?

• The lesson, moral, or message in a text

• The reason or why something happened in a text

• An educated guess based on what the author shows but doesn't tell the reader in a text

• The result or what happened in a text

When an author show's but doesn't directly tell the reader about something, then the reader must ____

• draw a conclusion

• form an opinion

• make an inference

• determine the cause

When is the best time to stop and reread a piece of text?

• When you come across something you don't understand

• When you are halfway through the text

• After you have already read it several times

• When you are finished with the entire text

Why would you use a dictionary when you're reading a novel for your English class

• To look up information about the novel's author

• To find a list of synonyms for a word in the novel

• To look up historical information about the novel

• To look up the definition of a word in the novel

What is the main purpose of note-taking

• It allows you to memorize the text word-for-word

• It allows you to write your report while you read your book

• It allows you to recognize and review key ideas

• It proves to your teacher that you've done your reading

Astronauts are space scientists. They work in space laboratories. They have to study a lot and learn about space science and technology. They must be good at languages, too. All astronauts must speak English, and many learn Russian.

All astronauts have to speak

• Russian

• English.

• Spanish

• French