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What is the main idea of this paragraph?
Before the invention of the toothbrush, people used a twig with a frayed end, also known as a “chew stick,” to brush their teeth. Today’s toothbrushes designed with a solid plastic handle with either a fixed or flexible brush at one end. Toothpaste is typically added to a toothbrush to assist in maintaining good oral hygiene. Both toothpaste and toothbrushes come in a vast assortment of colors, shapes, and sizes. Utilizing appealing, or attractive, toothbrushes can make tooth brushing enjoyable and lead your child in attaining perfect oral health.
What is the main idea?
A toothbrush is for a dentist.
Buying a nice toothbrush is an important part of your daily routine.
A toothbrush is a tool to help you maintain oral hygiene.
There are a variety of toothbrushes and toothpastes.
Summer can be scorching with temperatures peaking above 100 degrees. However, a swimming pool is an excellent means to combat the heat. Floating in the water provides a cool and refreshing relief from the high temperature. Splashing about in the depths of crystal clear water helps to battle the overwhelming heat. Grab a friend and head down to the pool this summer for a welcome respite from the summer sun!
What is this paragraph mostly about?
The joys and dangers of swimming in the heat of summer.
Safe ways to avoid dangerous sun exposure on your skin.
The overwhelming temperatures that humans experience during summer.
A fun way to solve the problem of summertime heat.
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. By the way, females can expect to live about six years longer than males. That’s taken from past records too!
What is the paragraph mostly about?
how long you might expect to live
about the health of females
why people live to be 70
tells that people live to be 100
What are supporting details?
Details that are used to confuse the reader
Details from the text that tell you how the character is feeling
Details about the text that tell you about the setting
Details from the text that develop the main idea
A summary does what?
makes an educated guess
spoils the ending of a movie
tells an opinion
creates shorter way to explain a text or passage with important information or key points
Which example shows how to most effectively annotate a text?
What is a summary?
briefly retelling a story using important details
a short story you write
a paragraph
a detailed piece of writing that tells a story
The Blackpole Warbler is a tiny bird that takes a really long trip. This little songbird lives in the forests of North America in the summer. However, when the weather turns cold in North America, the Blackpole Warbler takes flight. These small birds fly all the way to the Caribbean, where they spend the winter on warm tropical beaches. How far does the warbler fly for this tropical getaway? Scientists have tracked the Blackpole Warbler and say these amazing birds can fly over 1,700 miles!
Which is the best summary of this text?
The blackpole warbler is a small bird. It is also asongbird. It can fly.
The blackpole warbler is a small songbird that can flyover 1,700 miles.
The blackpole warbler is a small songbird that flies fromNorth America all the way to the Caribbean. The bird fliesover 1,700 miles.
Birds often migrate to warmer places in the winter.
What is the best summary of the text?
The men's eyes were drawn upward to the apparently unconscious human figure hanging upside down over the table.
In the quiet room, they gathered around a table that had a body hovering above it; yet only one person was looking at it.
The men were attending a meeting about an unconscious human.
None of the people seated underneath this singular sight was looking at it except for a pale young man sitting almost directly
below it.
What is the best summary of the text?
Hoping it was a mistake; Cath looks at the boy in her new dorm room. Then he introduces himself and she realizes it’s no mistake.
Cath’s new roommate is a boy so she decides to go and live in another dorm.
This was definitely room 913, but maybe it wasn’t Pound Hall, all these dormitories looked alike, like public housing towers for the elderly.
Cath is forced to live in a co-ed dorm, even though it makes her uncomfortable.
Turn over a bag of potato chips. Is the label interesting? A simple food recipe may use several ingredients. These come from the soil and from chemistry labs around the world. Surprises also show up in the labels on clothing and other products. Look at the label on a package of lipstick. The tube seems small and shiny, but inside lipstick there is soap, oil, fish scales, and wax!
Which is the best way to summarize this passage?
A bag of potato chips seems like a simple recipe. There are many ingredients from the soil and from chemistry labs.
Clothes and other products have many ingredients as well. Lipstick alone has soap, oil, wax, and fish scales.
Labels show what goes into food, clothing, and other products. A simple product may have many ingredients.
Lipstick seems small and shiny. Look at the label sometime. It has at least four different ingredients.
GameFAQs is a Web site that hosts walkthroughs for video games. It also has answers to many frequently asked questions to popular video games. The website was created in November 1995 by Jeff Veasey. The site has a lot of video game information. It is a place where gamers can get almost any information about games. It covers systems from the Atari to the Xbox 360. The Web site also covers computer games. The information on the Web site is given by volunteer gamers. Then, it is reviewed by the site's two editors, Jeff Veasey and Allen Tyner. The Web site also has a large message board community. Every game listed on the site has a board for discussion or game help.
The summary of this passage is:
GameFAQs has a lot of information about video games. It helps people with questions they have about games. It also gives them information on how to play the games well. Users can post messages on the message boards.
GameFAQs is a good Web site that allows gamers to discuss all kinds of video and computer games. It was started in November 1995. Allen Tyner is one of the two editors who checks the information volunteers put on the Web site.
GameFAQs is a Web site that helps video gamers with their games. It was created in 1995 and covers old and new video and computer games. The site is run by two editors, who check volunteer information before putting it on the site.
GameFAQs has information on old and new video games. It has information for Xbox 360 games like Halo. It also has several message boards where gamers can discuss their favorite computer games. It was created by Jeff Veasey.
San Francisco is located on the coast of California in an area often called the Bay Area. The weather is generally very mild, seldom getting really cold or really hot. Its mild climate is one reason many people live there. It seldom snows in San Francisco and generally does not get below freezing during the winter. Even in the middle of summer, temperatures may be in the mid 80s with a cool breeze from the bay keeping the weather very comfortable.
The summary of this passage is:
San Francisco has many neat things to do.
It seldom snows in California.
Many people choose to live in California.
The weather in San Francisco is generally very mild.
What is the best summary of the quote?
Words are powerful.
Words, in my opinion, are a great source of magic.
Words can cause injury, and fix problems. They are magical.
Words.
Stephen and Joseph Montgolfier were papermakers, but they had been interested in flying for many years. One night, in 1782, Joseph noticed something that gave him an idea. He was sitting in front of the fire when he saw some small pieces of scorched paper being carried up the chimney.Soon afterwards, the brothers conducted an experiment. They lit a fire under a small silk bag, which was open at the bottom; at once, the bag rose to the ceiling. After this, Stephen and Joseph conducted many more experiments, both indoors and in the open air. Eventually, they built a huge balloon of linen and paper. On June 5th, 1783, they launched their balloon in the village of Annonay.
Which sentence in this article provides text evidence for the inference that the Montgolfier brothers used hot air to lift their balloon?
Eventually, they built a huge balloon of linen and paper.
They lit a fire under a small silk bag, which was open at the bottom; at once the bag rose to the ceiling.
On June 5th, 1783, they launched their balloon in the village of Annonay.
One night, in 1782, Joseph noticed something that gave him an idea.
To improve the quality of instruction, students should be able to grade their teachers.
Which is the strongest evidence to support the claim?
Speaking to a local journalist, one student said, "Student assessments of teachers are necessary for quality instruction. I'm grateful that the administration adopted this much-needed program."
In one school, almost all teachers reported that they would change their approach if student feedback indicated that it was not working.
Several students surveyed about their teachers' effectiveness said that they questioned the anonymity of the survey and therefore were not completely truthful.
Which vocabulary word is being defined?
The repetition of sounds at the end of words, such as pool, rule, and fool?
simile
rhythm
rhyme
onomatopoeia
Which vocabulary word is being defined?
The beat created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables.
personification
simile
rhythm
alliteration
Which vocabulary word is being defined?
A humorous, rhyming, 5 line poem with a specific rhythm pattern and rhyme scheme?
Concrete Poem
Limerick Poem
Haiku Poem
Narrative Poem
Which vocabulary word is being defined?
A three line Japanese verse poem
haiku poem
concrete poem
narrative poem
lyric poem
Which vocabulary word is being defined?
Poetry expresses the thoughts and feelings of a single speaker, often in highly musical verse?
Narrative Poem
Concrete Poem
Haiku Poem
Lyric Poem
The water will subside and the flooding stop if the rain lets up soon.
I felt a little apprehensive the first time I traveled alone.
Look at the dictionary entry below. board/ ˈbȯrd/v. 1. To go aboard a ship, train, airplane, or bus 2. To cover or seal off with boards 3. To provide with regular meals 4.To come up against or alongside usually to attack
In paragraph 4, what does the word board mean?
What change should be made in sentence 9?
Change I to And
Insert a comma after agree
Change sentaments to sentiments
Make no change
What change should be made in sentence 15?
Change consumer to consummer
Insert a comma after websites
Change as many to hardly as many
Change shopping to shoping
The part of the play script that tells actors how to move or speak their lines is called the...
stage directions
scene
setting
stage
A ____ is a story or play that is acted out using characters in situations that imitate real life.
Biography
Drama
Director
Conflict
Using context clues, select the word that has the same meaning as the bold word.
I felt a little apprehensive the first time I traveled alone.
Tired
Worried
Confident
Thrilled
Refer to the dictionary entry in the photo: Which sentence correctly uses the SECOND definition of rebound?
My grades rebounded after I stayed after school for tutoring.
The game turned on a great rebound.
The softball rebounded off the catcher's mit and hit the batter in the eye.
Every great player must be able to recover a rebound.
Using the dictionary, write the third definition of the word “incompetent”.
lacking the qualities necessary
not legally qualified
inadequate to or unsuitable for a purpose
8th grade students
Lisa lives in a pastoral setting.
Using the definition and synonyms of pastoral in the dictionary, you know that Lisa lives in a ____________ setting.
colorful
city
frightening
country
The fence was constructed along the boundary of the farm and was built to be stable for years.
Which definition best defines how the word STABLE is used in the sentence above?
a building in which domestic animals are sheltered and fed
steady, reliable, sturdy
a group of people (such as athletes, writers, or performers) under one management
the racehorses of one owner
Which line contains an idea that would be most important to include in a summary of this passage?
Rosa Parks has been called the "mother of the civil rights movement." She is one of the most important people of the 20th century. In December of 1955, she refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger. The bus driver had her arrested. She was sent to court. She was found guilty of breaking the law.
Her act sparked a boycott of the bus system by blacks. Blacks refused to use the buses for more than a year. The boycott introduced the country to a man named Martin Luther King, Jr. People all over the country came to know King. Soon, the U.S. Supreme Court made segregation on city buses against the law.
Over the next forty years, Rosa Parks helped make Americans aware of the history of the civil rights struggle. She earned many honors, including the Martin Luther King Jr. Nonviolent Peace Prize. She is an example of courage and strength. She inspires all Americans to live free.
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger.
The boycott introduced the country to a man named Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rosa Parks was sent to court. She was found guilty of breaking the law.
Rosa Parks is an example of courage and strength. She inspires all Americans to live free.
Which of the below statements best summarizes the passage?
April's parents were dog breeders and their kennels were often filled with a litter of puppies. April helped care for the dogs by bathing them and giving them the best food and water.
April's class had also been learning how to care for animals in their science lessons, so she was thrilled when her teacher announced a field trip to an animal shelter. The shelter manager, Rachel, led the class into the kennel area where dogs and cats sat along opposite walls of the building. April was stunned by what she saw. Some dogs looked like they had been starved before coming to the shelter.
"What happened to these dogs?" April asked.
"These dogs are here because their owners did not care for them properly," Rachel replied. "We try to keep the animals healthy so they can go to good homes. If you know someone who wants to adopt a pet, please tell them about our shelter."
April decided to take action and she printed flyers with information about the shelter. April's parents handed them out to people who bought their puppies. The following day April received permission to post a flyer at her school. That afternoon, April received a phone call at home.
"Hi, April, this is Rachel. I wanted to thank you for creating flyers for the shelter. Our adoptions have already started to increase!"
"You're welcome! I just wanted to help rescue the puppies."
After a field trip to the animal shelter, April makes flyers to increase animal adoption because she cares about animals.
April's class takes a field trip to an animal shelter, and April learns how to take care of animals with the rest of her class.
The local animal shelter manager tells April that animals come to the shelter because their owners do not care for them.
April's parents have too many dogs to care for, and April works to keep their dogs from being taken to an animal shelter.
Giddy-up, cowboys and girls! In the Southwest during early half of the 1800s, cows were only worth 2 or 3 dollars a piece. They roamed wild, grazed off of the open range, and were abundant. Midway through the century though, railroads were built and the nation was connected. People could suddenly ship cows in freight trains to the Northeast, where the Yankees had a growing taste for beef. Out of the blue, the same cows that were once worth a couple of bucks were now worth between twenty and forty dollars each, if you could get them to the train station. It became pretty lucrative to wrangle up a drove of cattle and herd them to the nearest train town, but it was at least as dangerous as it was profitable. Cowboys were threatened at every turn. They faced cattle rustlers, stampedes and extreme weather, but kept pushing those steers to the train station. By the turn of the century, barbed wire killed the open range and some may say the cowboy too, but it was the train that birthed him.
The summary of this passage is:
Cows were not worth a lot of money until they could be easily transported to the East after the invention of the train. Many people then became cowboys despite the dangers they faced.
In the Southwest during early half of the 1800s, cows were only worth 2 or 3 dollars a piece.
It became pretty lucrative to wrangle up a drove of cattle and herd them to the nearest train town, but it was at least as dangerous as it was profitable.
People could suddenly ship cows in freight trains to the Northeast, where the Yankees had a growing taste for beef. Out of the blue, the same cows that were once worth a couple of bucks were now worth between twenty and forty dollars each, if you could get them to the train station.
