Nonfiction Reading Practice

A ________________ retells the important ideas in a passage or text.

• minor details

• supporting details

• paraphrase

• summary

Which of the following is true about a topic in a text?

• It is something you can identify while reading a text.

• It is something that is meaningful and related to the main idea and part of a good summary.

• It is a subject that is repeated throughout a text.

• All of the above is true about a topic.

Chocolate is a delicious treat enjoyed around the world. The chocolate making process contains many steps. First, the beans are harvested from the cacao trees. After that, they are set in the sun to dry and then roasted. It’s important that in the next step they shell the beans before they are ground into a liquid. Lastly, sugar and flavoring are added before they prepare it to be sold.

Which text structure best describes how this paragraph is written?

• Compare and Contrast

• Problem and Solution

• Sequence or Chronological Order

• Cause and Effect

Have you ever wanted to buy something but didn’t have enough money? As a kid, one way to resolve this dilemma is to help your parents. Many times parents will pay children an allowance to complete extra chores. Another possible way to take care of this issue is by offering to help your neighbors, rake their yard, help clean, or walk a dog. By using a problem-and-solution organizational pattern in this paragraph, the author of the selection is able to---

• demonstrate how children never have money when adults always do

• emphasize how not having money as a child can lead to coming up with creative ways to earn money

• show the effects of not having an allowance

• highlight how both adults and children can earn spare cash

Teenagers that are 14 or 15 years old must work outside of school hours. They are not allowed to work more than 3 hours on a school day, including Fridays, and they are only allowed to work 8 hours or less on a nonschool day. Teens of these ages are allowed to work no more than 18 hours during a week when school is in session and no more that 40 hours during a week when school is not in session (summer and school breaks). Teens are allowed to work between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m.-except between June 1 and Labor day when the evening hour is extended to 9 p.m. The author's main purpose for writing this selection is to---

• encourage teenagers to work more hours

• convince teens to enjoy their youth and not work too much

• explain the rules of working hours for teenagers

• describe possible jobs teenagers can hold

TRUE OR FALSE: Nonfiction summaries should be written in objective voice, using important details and not opinions.

• True

• False

TRUE OR FALSE: Nonfiction summaries connect the main ideas or key ideas that were written in the text

• True

• False

TRUE OR FALSE: Nonfiction summaries should have exact quotes, word for word, from the text

• True

• False

TRUE OR FALSE: Nonfiction summaries should include supporting details from the text that support the main idea.

• True

• False

Summaries help me...

• Understand what I'm reading

• Include the key points of a text

• Write about what I read

• All of the Above