Summarizing Review

What is the central idea of a text?

• What a text is mostly about

• The way a text is organized

• Who is telling the story

• A nonfiction text feature

Here are two popular sports played at Milton, basketball and volleyball. Both take place inside of the gym at Milton. Also, each sport has two teams of people. In basketball, however, the ball can be played off of the floor, and in volleyball, the ball cannot touch the floor or it is out of play. Basketball and volleyball are popular sports at Milton. What text structure is this?

• Sequence

• Problem and Solution

• Compare and Contrast

• Cause and Effect

A _________ is a person, place, or thing.

• verb

• pronoun

• adjective

• noun

Q3. 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 for many years. What is the central idea?

• Soccer is important at the Olympics.

• Soccer is also called football.

• Soccer is a popular sport worldwide.

• Soccer is played by men and women.

Gist

• the main point of a text

• A short description of a text that covers the main points (or gist) in as few words as possible.

• The group meant to read, listen, or watch a specific text.

• To attract, interest, or engage

You can combine evidence from the text with ________ to make a good prediction.

• your favorite character

• what you wish would happen

• information you already know

• the most exciting part of the story

A proper noun will always start with a ________.

• capital letter

• lowercase letter

• letter C

• letter E

You can find clues in the text by

• making an inference.

• observing the details.

• calculating the answer.

• revising your prediction.

This is the beginning, middle, and end of a story

• problem

• events

• solution

• setting

Read the following passage and then answer the question.

The Elk River flows from the far northern part of the state all the way to the southern tip. All kinds of animals rely on it for drinking water, people eat the fish they catch in it, and farmers in the state depend on it for irrigating their crops. Since there is very little rain in this state, the Elk River gives animals and humans the water they need to stay alive. Even though the river is not nearly the biggest in the nation, it is very important to the people and animals that live near it.

• The Elk River is a small river.

• The Elk River is very important to people and animals.

• The Elk River starts in the northern part of the state.

• People catch fish in the Elk River.