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Main/Central Idea

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A Language Arts Quiz to review the steps to finding the main idea

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1
This is the first place you might look in order to find the main idea of a passage.
The refrigerator door
The middle paragraph
The entire thing
The first few sentences
2
What is another word for topic?
Koala
Optic
Center
Subject
3
Supporting details do what?
Define the point of view
Back up the main idea
Support the Hornets
Support the topic
4
The central or main idea of a text is
the most important point that an author makes about a topic
a comparison of two unlike things using like or as
a point of view
an exaggeration
5
To find the main idea, ask yourself
What's for lunch?
General questions about the passage
Why do I care about the main idea?
How long is this passage, anyway?
6
The topic is the same thing as the main idea
False
True