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Main idea

• What the story is all about
• The lesson learned
• Read between the lines

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What is the main idea of a passage?

• the most important point the writer is trying to make
• the theme
• the details
• the most difficult idea the author is trying to explain

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San Francisco is located on the coast of California in an area often called the Bay Area. The weather is generally very mild, seldom getting really cold or really hot. Its mild climate is one reason many people live there. It seldom snows in San Francisco and generally does not get below freezing during the winter. Even in the middle of summer, temperatures may be in the mid 80s with a cool breeze from the bay keeping the weather very comfortable.
The Summary of this passage is:
 

• San Francisco has many neat things to do.
•  It seldom snows in California.
•  Many people choose to live in California.
•  The weather in San Francisco is generally very mild.

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Naval architects never claim that a ship is unsinkable, but the sinking of the passenger-and-car ferry Estonia in the Baltic surely should have never have happened. It was well designed and carefully maintained. It carried the proper number of lifeboats. It had been thoroughly inspected the day of its fatal voyage. Yet hours later, the Estonia rolled over and sank in a cold, stormy night. It went down so quickly that most of those on board, caught in their dark, flooding cabins, had no chance to save themselves: Of those who managed to scramble overboard, only 139 survived. The rest died of hypothermia before the rescuers could pluck them from the cold sea. The final death toll amounted to 912 souls. However, there were an unpleasant number of questions about why the Estonia sank and why so many survivors were men in the prime of life, while most of the dead were women, children and the elderly.
One can understand from the reading that ---

• the lifesaving equipment did not work well and lifeboats could not be
   lowered
• design faults and incompetent crew contributed to the sinking of the
   Estonia ferry
• naval architects claimed that the Estonia was unsinkable
• most victims were trapped inside the boat as they were in their cabins

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Pretty Little Liars Excerpt
By Sara Shepard
Imagine it's a couple of years ago, the summer between seventh and eighth grade. You're tan from lying out next to your rock-lined pool, you've got on your new Juicy sweats (remember when everybody wore those?), and your mind's on your crush, the boy who goes to that other prep school whose name we won't mention and who folds jeans at Abercrombie in the mall. You're eating your Cocoa Krispies just how you like 'em --- doused in skim milk --- and you see this girl's face on the side of the milk carton. Missing. She's cute --- probably cuter than you --- and has a feisty look in her eyes. You think, Hmm, maybe she likes soggy Cocoa Krispies too. And you bet she'd think Abercrombie boy was a hottie as well. You wonder how someone so . . . well, so much like you went missing. You thought only girls who entered beauty pageants ended up on the sides of milk cartons. Well,think again.
What is the importance of all the detailsabout the narrator’s day by the pool?

• to emphasize what she likes to do
• to show she is ordinary like the reader
• to remind the reader they were once in middle school
• to scare the reader about missing people

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Which of the following statements about SUMMARIZING is false?

•  The Summary is what the passage is mostly about.
• The Summary is what most of the sentences or paragraphs are about.
• The Summary is usually found in more than just one sentence of the passage
• The Summary is one isolated thought in a passage.

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Mr. Johnson looked up at the sky. It was clear as far as the eye could see, except for the cruel sun. The insatiable sun drained the land of all moisture. He cursed the sun. Mr. Johnson ran his fingers through one of the rows of dirt and grabbed a handful. It was bone dry, almost powdery. He let the dirt sift through his fingers and it turned to dust in the wind. Mr. Johnson put his hands on his hips and surveyed the field. It was well seeded, that he knew. He seeded it himself, yet nothing sprang from the dirt. "Well, there's only one thing left to do," he said to himself. Mr. Johnson headed to church.
What does Mr. Johnson do for a living?

• He is a priest.
• He stays at home.
• He is a scientist who observes crops.
• He is a farmer.

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What do we know about Scrooge's childhood?

• he was lonely
• he wasn't a very good reader
• he attended a very small school
• he had a bad relationship with his sister

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Which detail would be relevant to this main idea? Getting the right dog depends on where you live.

• If you have a small dog, it might get lost.

• If you have a large dog, it might scare people.

• If you have a big backyard, you might want to get a large dog.

• Some dogs are short-haired while others are long-haired.

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What country is Josef's family trying to escape to?

• Cuba

• Germany

• United States

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