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Central Idea & Details

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Central Idea & Details

Read the passage. Then answer each question. For the question that says “Choose all,” more than one answer is correct.

A Garden Helper

A school garden needs more than seeds and sunshine to grow well. Flowers attract bees, which carry pollen as they travel from blossom to blossom. This pollen helps many plants produce fruits and seeds. Later, students may pick tomatoes, cucumbers, or berries from the garden. The students also help by planting flowers and leaving a shallow dish of water nearby. These small actions make the garden a welcoming place for bees, and the bees help the plants thrive.

Choose the Best Answer

1.Which sentence best tells what the whole passage is mostly about?
  • Students can grow vegetables in a school garden.
  • Bees help garden plants grow, and students can make the garden bee-friendly.
  • Tomatoes and cucumbers are popular garden foods.
  • Bees need a dish of water in every garden.
2.Which detail explains how bees help plants produce fruits and seeds?
  • Students plant flowers in the garden.
  • Bees carry pollen from blossom to blossom.
  • Students pick berries later in the season.
  • The garden gets sunshine.
3.Choose all the details that support the idea that students help make the garden welcoming for bees.
  • Students plant flowers.
  • Students leave a shallow dish of water nearby.
  • Bees carry pollen between blossoms.
  • Students pick tomatoes and cucumbers.
4.Which detail tells what may happen after the plants grow?
  • Students may pick tomatoes, cucumbers, or berries.
  • Bees travel from blossom to blossom.
  • Students leave water nearby.
  • Flowers attract bees.

Connect Ideas

Match each detail to the central idea it supports. Central ideas may be used more than once.

5.Match each detail with the central idea it supports.
  • Bees carry pollen between blossoms.
  • Students plant flowers.
  • Students put a shallow dish of water nearby.
  • Students may pick tomatoes, cucumbers, or berries.
  • B. Bees help garden plants grow.
  • A. Students can help make a garden welcoming for bees.
  • C. A garden can provide food for people.
  • D. Bees and students both help a garden thrive.

Write About the Passage

6.Write the central idea of the passage in your own sentence.
7.Write three different details from the passage that support its central idea.
8.Choose one detail from the passage and explain how it supports the central idea.
9.Complete the sentence with one central idea and one detail: “The central idea is ____. One detail that supports it is ____.”

3 printable pages

  • Central Idea & Details, page 1 of 3: A Garden Helper, Choose the Best Answer

    Page 1

  • Central Idea & Details, page 2 of 3: Connect Ideas

    Page 2

  • Central Idea & Details, page 3 of 3: Write About the Passage

    Page 3

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