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Merline Saintfort
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Main idea and details
How can you determine the main idea of a reading selection?

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Essential Questions
How can you determine the main idea of a reading selection?
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Bats
Some kind of bats eat many insects. Some bats can eat up to 600 mosquitoes in an hour. Bats are helpful to the environment. Bats help us by eating insects. Without bats, we would have too many insects.
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Multiple Choice
What is the main idea of the passage?
Bat are mammals.
Bats eat 600 mosquitoes in one hour.
Bats eat many insects.
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Read the passage Bats and choose the sentence that best supports the main idea that bats eat many insects.
- Some kind of bats eat many insects.
- Some bats can eat up to 600 mosquitoes in an hour.
- Bats are helpful to the environment.
- Bats help us by eating insects.
- Without bats, we would have too many insects.
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Multiple Choice
What sentences supports the main idea that bats eat many insects?
sentence 1
sentence 2
sentence 3
sentence 4
sentence 5
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Multiple Choice
The main idea is what the passage is ____ about.
Partly
Mostly
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The Main idea is what the
passage is mostly about.
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While reading this passage please look out for the main idea?
Main idea and details
How can you determine the main idea of a reading selection?

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