Key Details

Key Details

9th - 12th Grade

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English

9th - 12th Grade

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 5 pts

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

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 5 pts

Jenny visited her grandmother in the hospital.  She saw how kind and helpful the nurses were to her grandmother.  Now she wants to be a nurse when she grows up.  She wants to help sick people get well. 
What is the main idea?

Jenny got sick.
Jenny wants to be a nurse.
Her grandmother was in the hospital.
Jenny was glad the nurses were being kind to her grandmother.

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 5 pts

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

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

3 mins • 5 pts

Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Brown are bakers.  They work at a store called Bake Goods to Go.  Mrs. Jones works nights.  She bakes cakes, cookies, and pies.  Mrs. Brown works in the daytime.  She bakes bread and rolls.  Both Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Brown are very good bakers.
What is the main idea?

Mrs. Jones bakes pies.
Mrs. Brown bakes rolls.
Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Brown are bakers
They work at a store called Bake Goods to Go.

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 5 pts

  It rains. The cars get wet. Then the sun comes out. It gets hot. Soon the cars are 
not wet.

What happens when it rains?

The sun is out
It gets hot
The cars get wet.