Key Ideas vs Supporting Details

read the statement from the text, determine if it is a key idea or a supporting detail

"Story openings take different forms."

• key idea

• supporting detail

read the statement from the text, determine if it is a key idea or a supporting detail

"Professional storytellers work at public events."

• key idea

• supporting detail

read the statement from the text, determine if it is a key idea or a supporting detail

"Story openings take different forms."

• key idea

• supporting detail

read the statement from the text, determine if it is a key idea or a supporting detail

"Storytelling is an important part of being human."

• key idea

• supporting detail

The author wrote the selection most likely to —

• encourage people to start telling their own stories

• present the ways storytelling impacts the world

• explain the educational qualities of stories

• persuade people to read books about storytelling

Once a story has begun, there is something deep within the human psyche that must hear what will happen next. The pull of the story is universal. There is no known culture without some form of storytelling, and the craving to know “what comes next” has been felt by every human being, regardless of age, gender, culture, or century.

Which phrase from paragraph 2 helps readers understand the meaning of universal?

• what will happen now

• something deep within

• no known culture without

• the craving to know

Storytelling provides other growth opportunities, as stories help listeners to see through another’s eyes and to share the protagonist’s feelings of anger, fear, or love—all from a safe place. The Austrian-born American writer and child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim explained that stories are important to children because battling difficulties through story can help them face real-life troubles. Stories provide role models who show us how to face demons and overcome adversity.

Which two words in paragraph 11 help the reader understand the meaning of adversity
as it is used in paragraph 11?

• growth

• love

• troubles

• show

• demons

Words, phrases, or sentences that provide proof for specific ideas is called

• supporting evidence

• text feature

• structure

• central idea

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CCSS.RI.3.2

Most of the other foods we think of as "nuts" are not really nuts at all. Peanuts, for example, usually have two seeds and break open easily. They are technically a legume because they grow in a pod. This is the same family of plants that produce their fruit (often beans) in a pod. Peanuts have more in common with snow peas than actual nuts.

Which supporting detail BEST supports the main idea that peanuts are not really nuts?

• They are technically a legume because they grow in a pod.

• Most of the other foods we think of as "nuts" are not really nuts at all.

• This is the same family of plants that produce their fruit (often beans) in a pod.

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.6.2

You might've seen the famous poster of Rosie the Riveter. She wears a red bandanna, blue overalls, and flexes her arm muscle. Above her is the saying "We Can Do It!" During World War II, this image represented the millions of female laborers. As men were off to war, women took their place in the factories and U.S. military businesses.

However, the famed Rosie image misses something. More than 500,000 of the women working at this time were "Black Rosies." They worked tirelessly in shipyards, factories, offices and elsewhere. All the while they fought both the foreign enemy abroad and the enemy of racism at home.

Which supporting detail BEST supports the main idea that Black women helped to support the war effort during WWII?

• You might've seen the famous poster of Rosie the Riveter.

• During the war, this image represented the millions of female laborers.

• More than 500,000 of the women working at this time were "Black Rosies."

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CCSS.RI.6.1