Main idea and supporting details quick check

What does the TOPIC of a story tell a reader?

• About the author.

• About the illustrations.

• One or two words about what the whole text is about.

• A detail about the story.

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What does the MAIN IDEA of a story tell the reader?

• The lesson or moral of the story.

• The problem in the story.

• The beginning, middle, or end of the story.

• The most important idea the author has about a topic.

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Key details give important information to support the main idea.

• True

• False

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Read the story, "Bats." Then tell what the TOPIC of the story is.

Bats

A bat can fly at night or even with its eyes closed. But, if you cover its ears, it can't fly very well. Bats make sounds that people can't hear. The bats find their way by listening to these sounds as they echo off things. This is called echo-location. Bats even locate insects to eat by following the sounds that bounce off the bugs. People use their eyes, but bats use their ears to know where they are going.

• Bats

• People

• Sounds

• Food

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Use the story, "Bats" to tell what the MAIN IDEA of the story is.

Bats

A bat can fly at night or even with its eyes closed. But, if you cover its ears, it can't fly very well. Bats make sounds that people can't hear. The bats find their way by listening to these sounds as they echo off things. This is called echo-location. Bats even locate insects to eat by following the sounds that bounce off the bugs. People use their eyes, but bats use their ears to know where they are going.

• How bats fly to people.

• How bats use sound.

• How people can hear the sounds of bats.

• What things bats often eat as food.

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Use the story, "Bats" to choose one DETAIL from the story that goes with the main idea.

Bats

A bat can fly at night or even with its eyes closed. But, if you cover its ears, it can't fly very well. Bats make sounds that people can't hear. The bats find their way by listening to these sounds as they echo off things. This is called echo-location. Bats even locate insects to eat by following the sounds that bounce off the bugs. People use their eyes, but bats use their ears to know where they are going.

• Bats find their way by listening to sounds as they echo off things.

• Bats eat insects.

• People use their eyes.

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Sloths live in the rainforests of Central and South America. They spend most of their lives in trees. They curl themselves into a ball and fall asleep in between branches. They sleep 15 to 20 hours a day! They also like to sleep hanging by their claws from tree branches. When sloths are awake, they spend most of their time in trees eating leaves. The only time they leave the tree is to go to the bathroom or to swim.

Match the topic, main idea, and detail with the correct answer.

• Sloths spend most of their time in trees

• Topic

• They sleep 15-20 hours in trees.

• Main Idea

• Sloths

• Detail

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Anteaters live in Central and South America. They have no teeth. They use their long tongue to eat about 35,000 ants and termites each day. First, the anteater uses its four inches claws to make an opening in the anthill. The anteater is careful not to destroy the anthill, so it can return to it later. The anteater eats quickly because the ants bite. In fact, an anteater only spends about a minute at each mound before looking for a new one.

True or False?

The topic of this paragraph is Benjamin Franklin.

• True

• False

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Sharks can lose up to 30,000 teeth in their lifetime. Sharks have teeth arranged in rows inside their mouths. These teeth do not have roots like human teeth do, so they fall out easily. When a shark takes a powerful bite into its food, several teeth are lost. When these teeth are lost, new ones push forward from the back rows to replace them. Luckily, sharks continually grow new teeth to replace the thousands they lose.
What is the main idea?

• What shark teeth look like
• Sharks lose many teeth over their lifetime.
• Sharks are carnivorous predators. 
• Sharks grow new teeth.

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A baby koala has a pretty easy life. After it is born, the baby koala is carried in its mother’s pouch and is fed by her. When the koala is sixth months old, its eyes are widely open and it is eager to see the outside world. So its mother carries it on her back until the baby koala is almost as big as she is.

The topic of the paragraph is __________.

• A koala’s mother

• A pretty easy life

• A baby koala

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