Understanding Reading Comprehension

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 also called football.

• Soccer is a worldwide sport.

• Soccer is played by men and women.

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My family went to the circus. We saw the funny clowns. We watched the lion act. We ate a lot of treats and popcorn. We had a lot of fun and I can't wait to go back!

This story is about __________.

• eating treats and popcorn

• going to the circus

• seeing lions

• funny clowns

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What is the theme of a story?

• Who is telling the story

• What the story is mostly about.

• The lesson that the author wants you to learn

• where the story takes place

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This step creates pictures in your mind of what you are reading.

• visualizing

• inferring

• monitoring

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This step helps guide your reading. It involves who, what, when, where, why, and how.

• Synthesizing your understanding

• Determining importance

• Generating questions

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This step involves forming the main idea of the paragraph, text, or article. It's the "Big Picture."

• Visualizing importance

• Determining importance

• Inferring importance

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CCSS.RI.7.2

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What is the meaning of the word stretches as it is used in this sentence?

"Long stretches of sand and the hot sun make it feel like a desert."

• growing pieces

• shrinking areas

• unused pieces

• unbroken areas

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Situation

Daughter: Mom, I'm going shopping with my friends at Chatuchak Weekend Market.

Mother: Beware of pickpockets. There are a lot of people there.

Daughter: Thank you, mom.

The mother says that because _____?

• she wants her daughter to take good care of her purse

• she doesn't want her daughter to go there

• she doesn't want to let her daughter go there alone

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CCSS.RI.6.1

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Erosion of America's farmland by wind and water has been a problem since settlers first put the prairies and grasslands under the plow in the nineteenth century. By the 1930s, more than 282 million acres of farmland were damaged by erosion. After 40 years of conservation efforts, soil erosion has accelerated due to new demands placed on the land by heavy crop production. In the years ahead, soil erosion and the pollution problems it causes are likely to replace petroleum scarcity as the nation's most critical natural resource problem.

As we understand from the reading, today, soil erosion in America ----.

• causes humans to place new demands on the land

• is worse than it was in the nineteenth century

• happens so slowly that it is hardly noticed

• is the most critical problem that the nation faces

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In the 16th century, an age of great marine and terrestrial exploration, Ferdinand Magellan led the first expedition to sail around the world. As a young Portuguese noble, he served the king of Portugal, but he became involved in the quagmire of political intrigue at court and lost the king's favor. After he was dismissed from service by the king of Portugal, he offered to serve the future Emperor Charles V of Spain. 1.

The 16th century was an age of great ______ exploration.

• A. cosmic

• B. land

• C. mental

• D. common man

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