Analyze any nonfiction text with the set of questions on this sheet. Class members practice inferring by noting the main idea and purpose of a passage. They also analyze an opinion in the passage and write a brief summary. See the additional materials for an expanded, two-page version of this activity.

Concepts

main ideas, central ideas, fact and opinion, opinions, inferences, reading comprehension, summarizing

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Additional Tags

reading comprehension, main idea, purpose of text, fact and opinion, inference, summarize, english language arts

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Pros

• Adaptable to Common Core standards for reading informational texts
• Can be used with any informational text

Cons

• Some questions don't have much space for a response; see the two-page version for another option