Claims, Central Idea, and Summary Worksheet
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Claims, Central Idea, and Summary Worksheet
Grade 6 English Language Arts LearnCrux.com
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Directions
- Fill in each blank carefully.
- Circle or mark the best answer for each multiple-choice question.
- Match each prompt to the best option before writing your answer.
- Use the larger space to show your thinking on word problems.
1. A statement an author wants readers to accept is a __.
2. Which evidence would most strongly support a claim about recycling at school?
3. Match the phrase to its meaning: central idea
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4. A summary should be short, accurate, and __.
5. Why is it useful to distinguish strong evidence from weak evidence?
6. Which response is most likely a topic rather than a central idea?
7. When readers explain how details build the author’s point, they are tracing how the central idea is __.
8. Why should summaries avoid judgment words like boring or amazing?
📋 Teacher Answer Key
1. claim
2. Before-and-after trash-weight data from the cafeteria
3. the main point developed through the text
4. objective
5. Strong evidence helps readers judge whether an author’s claim is truly supported
6. Pollution
7. developed
8. Those words add opinion instead of explaining the text objectively