main idea and key details

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English
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5th - 6th Grade
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Jordan Galloway
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20 questions
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is the best question to ask yourself when you are trying to find the central idea of an article?
Who is the main character?
What is the main event?
What is one important detail?
What point is the author trying to make?
Tags
CCSS.RI.5.2
CCSS.RI.6.2
CCSS.RL.4.2
CCSS.RL.5.2
CCSS.RL.6.2
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What does the main idea of a story tell the reader?
a specific detail from the story
The conflict of the story
What the story is about
The universal truth, moral, or idea the author wants to express
Tags
CCSS.RI.5.2
CCSS.RI.6.2
CCSS.RL.4.2
CCSS.RL.5.2
CCSS.RL.6.2
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
3 mins • 1 pt
What is the main idea?
Tags
CCSS.RI.5.2
CCSS.RI.6.2
CCSS.RI.7.2
CCSS.RL.5.2
CCSS.RL.6.2
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
Mount Rushmore is a huge carving in a stone cliff. The carving shows the faces of four U.S. presidents. They are George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. Mount Rushmore is in South Dakota. Each year many people visit this amazing sight.
What is a detail that tells about the main idea?
how the four presidents were chosen
why Mount Rushmore is in South Dakota
which presidents are at Mount Rushmore
Tags
CCSS.RI.6.2
CCSS.RL.5.1
CCSS.RL.5.2
CCSS.RL.6.1
CCSS.RL.6.2
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
45 sec • 1 pt
Landon wanted to be a great skater. But he didn't want to spend the hours practicing. He wished he could just do the tricks easily. Landon's dream was to have everyone stop and stare when he entered the skate park. He wanted them to say, "Landon is the best skater in the whole world."
What is the main idea?
Landon wants everyone to think he's a great skater without doing the hard work.
Landon practices very hard to become a great skater.
Landon is the best skater at the park.
Landon wants to learn how to skate so he can compete.
Tags
CCSS.RI.5.2
CCSS.RI.6.2
CCSS.RL.5.2
CCSS.RL.6.2
CCSS.RL.7.2
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
1 min • 1 pt
Tags
CCSS.RI.5.2
CCSS.RI.6.2
CCSS.RL.5.1
CCSS.RL.5.2
CCSS.RL.6.2
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
3 mins • 1 pt
What is the main idea?
Tags
CCSS.RI.5.2
CCSS.RI.6.2
CCSS.RL.5.2
CCSS.RL.6.2
CCSS.RL.7.2
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