Main Idea and Details

A school garden. Every Friday, Aisha's class cares for the school garden. They water the beans, pull weeds and pick ripe tomatoes. The garden gives them fresh food and a quiet place to learn. How to wash hands. Wash your hands before you eat and after you play outside. Use soap and water. Rub your palms, thumbs and nails, then rinse and dry them. Clean hands help stop germs from spreading. Why bees matter. Bees visit flowers to collect nectar. While they fly from bloom to bloom, pollen sticks to their bodies and moves to other flowers. That work helps many plants make fruit and seeds.

1. 1. What is the main idea of the school garden paragraph?

   The class looks after a garden that gives food and a place to learn.They pick ripe tomatoes.The class works on Friday.They pull weeds.

2. 2. What is the main idea of the handwashing paragraph?

   Washing with soap helps stop germs from spreading.Rub your thumbs.Dry your hands.Play outside.

3. 3. What is the main idea of the bees paragraph?

   Bees help plants make fruit and seeds by moving pollen.Bees collect nectar.Pollen sticks to their bodies.Flowers grow only in one garden.

4. 4. If bees stopped moving pollen, what would be likely?

   Fewer plants would make fruit and seeds.Hands would no longer need soap.The school garden would water itself.Tomatoes would grow without any plants.

Write one: School garden, Washing hands, Bees.

• Rub your nails.ChooseSchool gardenWashing handsBees
• Pollen sticks to their bodies.ChooseSchool gardenWashing handsBees
• They water the beans.ChooseSchool gardenWashing handsBees
• Bees collect nectar.ChooseSchool gardenWashing handsBees
• Rinse and dry your hands.ChooseSchool gardenWashing handsBees
• They pick ripe tomatoes.ChooseSchool gardenWashing handsBees

1. 1. Write one sentence that gives the main idea of the bees paragraph. Do not copy only a tiny detail.