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One dinosaur had a brain that weighed about as much as three pencils.  Its body weighed ten tons and was over twenty feet in length.  As you can guess, this dinosaur did not think too clearly.  It wasn't the world's brightest dinosaur!  What is the main idea of this paragraph?

• How big one dinosaur was
• What one dinosaur's brain was like
• Why one dinosaur had a small brain

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Read the following passage and then answer the question.
There are five teams of students in the fifth grade. The blue team has math first period, and the red team has science. The yellow team gets to go outside early in the morning, while the green team goes to music. Only students on the orange team get to play games first period. Each student wears a nametag with his or her color, so that the teachers and students all know where a student should be.

• Students are organized by teams with color names .
• The blue team has math first.
• Students wear nametags.
• The yellow team has the best schedule.

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An INFORMATIONAL text

• is fiction
• is nonfiction
• could be either

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Cause: My brother added lots of sugar to his drink.

• It was too sour to drink.
• It was too sweet to drink.
• He broke the cup.
• He had to clean the dishes.

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What graphic feature is shown in this example?

• photograph
• table
• map
• diagram

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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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TEKS.ELA.9-12.II.A.3

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What is a bold word?

• A main idea
• An important vocabulary word
• A title
• An author

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Keegan was hungry because he skipped lunch.
What is the effect?

• Keegan was hungry
• because he skipped lunch

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What is the main idea?

• Its the authors point of view
• Is what the passage is mostly about
• It is the sequence of the story.

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This feature is usually found when the subject changes and explains what the paragraph is about?

• Table of contents

• Diagram

• Index

• subheading

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