TEKS.ELA.4.9D

_{^{What two things are being compared in this picture?}}

• apples and oranges
• grapes and bananas

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TEKS.ELA.4.9D

Keep your teeth happy. Brush your teeth twice a day. Make sure you floss your teeth every time you brush and after you eat. Avoid eating anything that sticks to your teeth, like candy and syrup. Eat vegetables and fruits that don't cause cavities. 
What is the main idea?

• Keep your teeth happy
• Brush your teeth twice a day
• Avoid eating candy and syrup
• Eat more vegetables

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TEKS.ELA.4.6G

TEKS.ELA.6.5G

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TEKS.ELA.7.5G

Porpoises live in the earth's oceans and sometimes in bays and rivers near oceans. Porpoises are mammals. Their babies get their food from their mother's body. These animals live in the water, but they must come up for air. Porpoises are very interesting animals.
What is the main idea?

• Porpoises live in the ocean
• Porpoises are mammals
• Porpoises must come up for air
• Porpoises are very interesting animals 

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Porpoises live in the earth's oceans and sometimes in bays and rivers near oceans. Porpoises are mammals. Their babies get their food from their mother's body. These animals live in the water, but they must come up for air. Porpoises are very interesting animals.
What is the main idea?

• Porpoises live in the ocean
• Porpoises are mammals
• Porpoises must come up for air
• Porpoises are very interesting animals 

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TEKS.ELA.4.6G

Hummingbirds love pink or red flowers. They guard their favorite flowers and try to keep other birds away. They fight one another for food. Their wings make a whirring sound when they hover over flowers to sip nectar. The tiny birds fly long distances to go to a warmer climate for the winter. They make their tiny nests in shrubs or trees. 
What is the main idea?

• Hummingbirds are interesting birds
• They hover over flowers to sip nectar.
• They fly long distances to travel to warmer climates in the winter
• They guard their favorite flowers

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TEKS.ELA.4.9D

TEKS.ELA.6.5G

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.

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What kind of sentence tells the main idea of a paragraph?

• supporting detail
• topic sentence
• example sentence
• transition sentence

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The key word different is

• compare
• contrast

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TEKS.ELA.4.7B

How does the author organize the ideas in the sentences below?

Time passed and the new tree grew quickly. It spread its shallow roots
far out under the floor of the forest. Its bark grew thicker.

• by sequence of events
• by order of importance
• by problem and solution
• by comparison and contrast

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This type of writing considers similarities and differences.

• description
• compare & contrast
• order & sequence
• cause & effect

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TEKS.ELA.4.9D

TEKS.ELA.4.7B