Nonfiction Reading Practice

Uses text features to hold reader's attention.

• Fiction

• Nonfiction

Includes an index, charts and graphs, photographs, and headings.

• Fiction

• Nonfiction

Genres include: biography, reference, autobiography, informational, newspaper.

• Fiction

• Nonfiction

What do you call the sentences located under the topic sentence in a paragraph?

• main ideas
• extra information
• supporting details

In expository text, you usually can locate the main idea/topic sentence of each paragraph 

• at the beginning of each paragraph
• in the middle of the paragraph
• at the end of the paragraph
• a paragraph doesn't have a topic sentence

The main idea of an informational text, like the theme of a fictional story, should be written as . . .

• seldom as possible

• a word or two

• a sentence

• a paragraph

• a picture because it says a thousand words

The words that tell about this photograph are called the 

• bold print
• caption
• label

A reader reads nonfiction to

• be entertained.
• learn new things.
• meet new characters.

Soccer players learn many skills when playing soccer.  Soccer players learn how to dribble and pass the ball.  They also learn how to control the ball so they can eventually score.  Most importantly, soccer players learn how to work together with their teammates.
What is the main idea?

• They also learn how to control the ball so they can eventually score.
• Soccer players learn how to dribble.
• They learn how to work together as teammates.
• Soccer players learn many skills when playing soccer.

Someday we will all have robots that will be our personal servants. They will look and behave much like real humans. We will be able to talk to these mechanical helpers and they will be able to respond in kind! Amazingly, the robots of the future will be able to learn from experience. They will be smart, strong, and untiring workers whose only goal will be to make our lives easier.
What is this selection mainly about?

• Someday we will have robots that will be our personal servants.
• We will be able to talk to robots and they will be able to respond.
• You should give up if you are the Robots will look and behave much like real humans.
• Amazingly, the robots of the future will be able to learn from experience.