Central Idea and Supporting Details Practice

What are supporting details?

• Details from the text that develop the main idea

• Useless

• Details from the text that tell you how the character is feeling

• Details about the text that tell you about the setting

Select the supporting detail that doesn't fit.

• It's my least favorite class.

• Sometimes we do dramatic readings of the text that are super engaging. 

• Our teacher gives us new ways to look at things.

• We learn interesting facts from the things we read.

What is the central idea of the passage?

• The light bulb was an important invention

• Thomas Edison was an important inventor

• Thomas Edison was an excellent student

• Creating inventions is a difficult process

The CENTRAL IDEA of a nonfiction text needs to always be supported with...

• Supporting details

• The reader's opinion

• Reliable authors

• Concluding sentences

What is the central idea of the passage?

• Leopards are losing their homes

• The destruction of the rain forest is harming humans and animals.

• The destruction of the rain forest is an interesting subject

• Forests provide oxygen for humans and animals

What is the central idea of the passage?

• Apollo 11’s landing was an important moment in history

• Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin are heroes

• People were surprised about Apollo 11's success

• Millions watched the Apollo 11 moon landing

What is the central idea of the passage?

• Laws were unfair in the Middle Ages

• Fighting is a good way to decide guilt or innocence.

• Most people lied about crime in the Middle Ages.

• Those who were innocent of crimes often won

What is the central idea of the passage?

• Knights learned a variety of subjects while training

• Knights were very talented individuals

• Knights were very hard working

• Sword fighting was the most important subject a knight learned

What is the central idea of the passage?

• MTV has been a ground-breaking TV channel

• MTV offers interesting videos

• Watching MTV is a great way to see musicians

• MTV is a channel that is broadcasted around the world

What is the central idea of the passage?

• Shakespeare was a talented writer

• Many people enjoyed Shakespeare’s plays

• Shakespeare would have created many other works if he hadn’t died so young

• Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet