WorksheetsCentral Idea
Total questions: 8
Worksheet time: 4mins
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 about the topic is the author trying to make?
What text features can give you a clue of what the main idea is?
Title
Headings
Pictures
All of the above
What is the story mainly about?
Microchips provide the power for wristwatches. They are also the brains in our computers, and they control robots. These chips are used in video games and space shuttles. They make our cameras, radios, and televisions small and light.
How computers work.
Why televisions are small.
How microchips are used.
What is the central idea?
Soccer players learn many skills when playing soccer. Soccer players learn how to dribble and pass the ball. They also learn how to control the ball so they can eventually score. Most importantly, soccer players learn how to work together with their teammates.
Soccer players learn many skills when playing soccer.
Soccer players learn how to control the ball so they can score.
Soccer players learn how to dribble.
What is the central idea?
“The rain forest is home to many creatures. Monkeys, toucans and macaws live in the rain forest. Butterflies and anteaters also live in the rain forest.”
Sloths and tapirs are other creatures that live in the rain forest.
The rain forest is home to many creatures.
Monkeys, toucans and macaws live in the rain forest.
What is this passage mainly about?
Were you born after 1985? If so, how long do you expect to live? Most people born after 1985 can expect to live more than 70 years. Of course, this is just a guess based on past records.
Why people live to be 70.
How long you might be expected to live.
Past records give you information.
What is the central idea of the passage?
Thomas Edison’s life span is known as “The age of Edison.” If it wasn’t for Thomas Edison, we might not have electric lights, telephones, movie cameras, or computers! Think of all the ways these great products affect our lives today. Edison held over 1,000 patents and received dozens of awards during his lifetime for his inventions and contributions to science.
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
Which of the following details would best support the main idea of this passage?
