Main Idea & Supporting Details — Answer Key
Part A: Read and Answer
Eating healthy food helps your body grow strong. Fruits like apples and bananas give you energy. Vegetables like carrots help your eyes. Milk makes your bones strong. Drinking water keeps you from getting sick. It is important to eat healthy foods every day. Read the passage. Then answer the questions.
1. What is the main idea of the passage?
A) Apples taste good.
B) Healthy food helps your body.
C) Carrots are orange.
D) Water is cold.
The passage is mostly about how eating healthy food keeps your body strong and well.
2. Which is a supporting detail from the passage?
A) Pizza is yummy.
B) Milk makes your bones strong.
C) Dogs eat bones.
D) The sky is blue.
Milk making bones strong is a detail from the passage that supports the main idea about healthy food.
3. What do fruits like apples and bananas give you?
A) Sleep
B) Energy
C) Homework
D) Toys
The passage says fruits give you energy, which is a supporting detail about healthy food.
4. Which sentence is NOT a supporting detail in the passage?
A) Carrots help your eyes.
B) Milk makes bones strong.
C) Ice cream is sweet.
D) Water keeps you well.
Ice cream is sweet is not in the passage because the passage talks about healthy foods, not treats.
5. The main idea tells what the whole passage is about.
The main idea is the big point that tells what the whole passage is about.
6. Vegetables like carrots help your eyes.
Carrots helping your eyes is a supporting detail about why healthy food is good.
7. Drinking water keeps you from getting sick.
Drinking water is a supporting detail that tells one way to stay healthy.
8. It is important to eat healthy foods every day.
Eating healthy every day is important because it keeps your body strong.
9. Supporting details give more information about the main idea.
Supporting details are facts or sentences that tell more about the main idea.