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Main Idea & Vocabulary One Well

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a main idea?

a)

One supporting detail that leads you to a main idea.

b)

The big idea the author wants you to know.

c)

The main event in wrestling.

d)

When you think of something, you get an idea.

2.

What is a supporting detail?

a)

Facts and pieces of information that lead you to understand the main idea.

b)

When you have to support someone.

c)

Details that are not important.

d)

The big idea the author wants you to know.

3.

What is a well?

a)

A big sea animal.

b)

When someone cries.

c)

A deep hole in the ground with water in it.

4.

Which one of these is the best example of something essential?

a)

Donuts

b)

Water

c)

Playgrounds

5.

Which one of these is a faucet?

a)
b)
c)
d)
6.

Which is an image of a glacier?

a)
b)
c)
d)
7.

What is a glacier?

a)

an area filled with water

b)

a small body of still water

c)

a visible mass of vapor floating in the atmosphere, typically high above the ground.

d)

a slowly moving mass or river of ice

8.

Which is an accurate picture of global?

a)
b)
c)
d)
9.

What does essential mean?

a)

Not important.

b)

A weather event.

c)

Extremely important.

10.

Check all that apply. Which can be used as strategies to find the main idea?

a)

Repeated words

b)

The title

c)

First and last sentences

d)

closing your eyes when you read