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Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 18mins
What is the central idea of the passage?
Who or what a text is about is called
Central Idea
Objective Summary
Supporting Details
Topic
What is the central idea of a text?
What the test is least about
What the text is mostly about
Not Sure
What are the details in a text?
Details support the central idea in a text
Central idea supports the details in a text
Details are not important in a text
The central idea of a text is always clear.
True
False
Not sure
Which of the following is NOT a strategy to use when searching for the central idea?
Highlighting important information
Rereading the text
Highlighting the entire text
What is the CENTRAL IDEA of a nonfiction text?
What the text is MOSTLY about.
A full paragraph SUMMARY of a text.
The type of CONFLICT used throughout a text.
The universal truth, moral lesson, or message that the author intends for the audience.
Which text feature can give you clues about the central idea?
Title
Headings
Pictures
All of these
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 has become an essential invention
Thomas Edison's inventions still impact society today
Thomas Edison worked until he perfected his inventions
The process of inventing is never-ending
What is the central idea of the passage?
Jackie Robinson did something nobody had ever done before. He was not only a three-sport athlete at UCLA. He was the first African-American to play on a Major league baseball team, the Brooklyn Dodgers. Robinson had to deal with racism all over the country. He was treated very poorly by the by other players and fans in the stadiums he visited. But, whenever things got difficult, his courage and determination kept him going. Today his number 42 is retired on every team in major league baseball, and he is in the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Jackie Robinson is in the Baseball Hall of Fame
Jackie Robinson played many different sports
Jackie Robinson is an important figure in American History
Jackie Robinson played for the Brooklyn Dodgers
What is the central idea of this paragraph?
Habit 2, Begin with the End in Mind, means developing a clear picture of where you want to go with your life. It means deciding what your values are and setting goals. Habit 1 says you are the driver of your life, not the passenger. Habit 2 says, since you’re the driver, decide where you want to go and draw up a map to get there.
You are the driver of your life, not the passenger.
Since you are the driver, decide where you want to go and draw up a map to get there.
Decide on your values and set goals.
What is the main idea of the following text?
Although Habit 2 applies to many different circumstances and levels of life, the most fundamental application of “begin with the end in mind” is to begin today with the image, picture, or paradigm of the end of your life as your frame of reference or the criterion by which everything else is examined. Each part of your life—today’s behavior, tomorrow’s behavior, next week’s behavior, next month’s behavior—can be examined in the context of the whole, of what really matters most to you. By keeping that end clearly in mind, you can make certain that whatever you do on any particular day does not violate the criteria you have defined as supremely important, and that each day of your life contributes in a meaningful way to the vision you have of your life as a whole.
Begin with the end in mind means thinking about the past and coming up with a plan.
Begin with the end in mind means examining today's behavior, and tomorrow's behavior and aligning what you do to what matters most to you.
Begin with the end in mind means thinking about what you want today, and how to achieve it.
This is the most common place to find the main idea in a text.
The mddle of a text.
The end of a text.
The beginning of a text.
Growing and Becoming More Mature, Advanced, or Elaborate.
Development
Determine
Compose
To Figure Out.
Determine
Analyze
Refined
To Break into Smaller Components for the Purpose of Study or Examination
Emerges
Paraphrase
Analyze
A Brief Statement that Contains the Essential Ideas of a Longer Passage.
Key Details
Summary
Personal Opinion
To Write or Create
Distinct
Central Idea
Compose
To Improve by Making Small Changes
Central Idea
Refined
Key Details
To Come into Existence; Develop.
Determine
Emerges
Topic
Absolutely Necessary; Extremely Important.
Essential
Key Details
Judgement
Not Influenced by Personal Feelings or Opinions in Considering and Representing Facts.
Judgement
Essential
Objective
A Belief of Conclusion Held with Confidence, but Not Substantiated by Proof.
Personal Opinion
Key Details
Analyze
An Informed and Objective Opinion Formulated without Bias.
Determine
Judgement
Identify
