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Key Ideas and Supporting Details

Authored by Sarah Williams

English

6th Grade

CCSS covered

Key Ideas and Supporting Details
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Main Idea:
To scuba dive you need a lot of special equipment.

What supporting detail would NOT go with this main idea?

Scuba divers prefer the waters of the Caribbean.

A mask is used to help the scuba diver see things underwater.

A scuba diver uses an oxygen tank to breathe under water.

Flippers make swimming in the ocean much easier.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RI.5.2

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

What is the best question to ask yourself when you are trying to find the main idea?

Who is the main character?

What is the main event?

What is one important detail?

What point is the author trying to make?

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

When you determine the main idea and key details of a text while condensing information into a short paragraph, you are _____.

predicting

concluding

summarzing

judging

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.5.9

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What do we call the sentences that justify the main idea?

supporting details

key words

main characters

central ideas

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Frogs are amazing jumpers.


What detail would support this main idea?

Frogs use their tongue to catch flies.

A tadpole is the name of a young frog.

The Fire-belly Toad has slightly warty skin.

Frogs have long, powerful legs which help them leap long distances.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What detail would support this main idea?

Octopuses have two eyes and four pairs of arms.

Octopuses like to live in coral reefs.

Octopuses use camouflage to disguise themselves.

Octopuses move about by crawling or swimming.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RI.5.2

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Earthquakes can cause a lot of destruction.


What supporting detail would NOT go with this main idea?

Earthquakes can also be known as quakes, tremors, or temblors.

Many bridges are demolished when they wobble in a quake.

When a building is not made earthquake safe, it can crumble

to the ground.

Earthquakes can create tsunamis, which

can flood cities.

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.6.1

CCSS.RI.5.2

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