Identifying the Key Sentence in a ParagraphEnglish V

Skill: Identify the key sentence in paragraphBenjamin Franklin was a man of many talents. He wrote for a newspaper. Some of his inventions such as bifocal glasses and the Franklin stone are used today. We still quote many of his sayings such as Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.1. What is the paragraph about?2. What does it say about him?3. Where can you find the key sentence?

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WorksheetHeading and Related Ideas

Checking of Assignment

Give a proper heading the set of related ideas._______________

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Review

Who among you likes to eat chocolates?

What is your favorite brand of chocolate candy?

Have you ever wondered how this yummy food came to be?

Would you like to find out how?

Motivation

Read all the underlined words.1. Not a single dinosaur lives now because it doesn’t exist anymore.2. Ancient people lived million of years ago.3. I like to try different flavors of beverages.4. Chewable medicines can be taken easily.5. There is a formula in getting the area of a triangle.6. We extract oil from coconuts when we cook its meat.7. Liquor such as wine, brandy and whisky are not for school age children.

Unlocking of Difficulties

Quick History of ChocolateMost of us now take solid chocolate – especially candy bars – so much for granted we find it hard to imagine a time when chocolates didn’t exist. However, this delicious food became an eating favorite only about one hundred and fifty years ago.The ancient people of Central America began cultivating cacao beans almost three thousand years ago. A cold drink made from beans is served to Hernando Cortes, the Spanish conqueror, when he arrives at the Aztec court of Montezuma in 1519.

Presentation

The Spaniards took the beverage home to their king. He liked it so much that he kept the formula a secret. For the next hundred years, hot chocolate was the private drink of the Spanish nobility. Slowly, it makes its way into fashionable courts of France, England, and Austria. In 1657, a Frenchman living in London opened a shop where blocks for making the beverage were sold at a high price. Soon chocolate houses appeared in cities throughout Europe. Wealthy clients met in them, sipped chocolate, conducted business, and gossip.

During the 1800s, chocolate became a chewable food. The breakthrough came in 1828, when cocoa butter was extracted from the bean. Twenty years later, an English firm mixed the butter with chocolate liquor, which resulted in the first solid chocolate. Milton Hershey’s first candy bar came on the scene 1894, and Tootsie Rolls hit the market two years later. The popularity of chocolate bars soared during World War I when they were given to soldiers for fast energy. M & Ms gave the industry another boost during World War II; soldiers needed a candy that wouldn’t melt in their hands.

On the average, Americans today eat ten pounds of hard chocolate a year. Their number one choice is Snickers, which sells more than a billion bars every year. However, Americans consume far less chocolate than many Western Europeans. The average Dutch person gobbles up more than fifteen pounds a year, while a Swiss pack away almost twenty pounds Chocolate is obviously an international favorite.

a. Who were the first people to cultivate the cacao beans?

b. What did they do with cacao beans?c. Where was the drinking of hot chocolate a favorite among the wealthy people.d. When did chocolate became a chewable food?e. Why were given to soldier during the World War I? f. Why only the wealthy people in Europe drank hot chocolate?

Comprehension Check-up

g. Do you agree with decision of the Spanish King to keep the formula for hot chocolate a secret?h. Should growing children like you eat too much chocolates? Why? Why not?i. What can you say about the Spanish king who kept the formula of the hot chocolate a secret?j. What was his intention in keeping it a secret?k. As Grade 5 pupils, what can you say/share with other children like you? How will you share these things with others?

Comprehension Check-up

You will now look for the key sentence in every paragraph.What is the key sentence of paragraph 1?

The ancient people of Central America began cultivating cacao beans almost three thousand years ago. A cold drink made from beans is served to Hernando Cortes, the Spanish conqueror, when he arrives at the Aztec court of Montezuma in 1519.

Analysis and Discussion

What is the key sentence of paragraph 1?

The ancient people of Central America began cultivating cacao beans almost three thousand years ago. A cold drink made from beans is served to Hernando Cortes, the Spanish conqueror, when he arrives at the Aztec court of Montezuma in 1519.

Analysis and Discussion

What is the key sentence of paragraph 2?

The Spaniards took the beverage home to their king. He liked it so much that he kept the formula a secret. For the next hundred years, hot chocolate was the private drink of the Spanish nobility. Slowly, it makes its way into fashionable courts of France, England, and Austria. In 1657, a Frenchman living in London opened a shop where blocks for making the beverage were sold at a high price. Soon chocolate houses appeared in cities throughout Europe. Wealthy clients met in them, sipped chocolate, conducted business, and gossip.

Analysis and Discussion

What is the key sentence of paragraph 2?

The Spaniards took the beverage home to their king. He liked it so much that he kept the formula a secret. For the next hundred years, hot chocolate was the private drink of the Spanish nobility. Slowly, it makes its way into fashionable courts of France, England, and Austria. In 1657, a Frenchman living in London opened a shop where blocks for making the beverage were sold at a high price. Soon chocolate houses appeared in cities throughout Europe. Wealthy clients met in them, sipped chocolate, conducted business, and gossip.

Analysis and Discussion

What is the key sentence of paragraph 3?

During the 1800s, chocolate became a chewable food. The breakthrough came in 1828, when cocoa butter was extracted from the bean. Twenty years later, an English firm mixed the butter with chocolate liquor, which resulted in the first solid chocolate. Milton Hershey’s first candy bar came on the scene 1894, and Tootsie Rolls hit the market two years later. The popularity of chocolate bars soared during World War I when they were given to soldiers for fast energy. M & Ms gave the industry another boost during World War II; soldiers needed a candy that wouldn’t melt in their hands.

Analysis and Discussion

What is the key sentence of paragraph 3?

During the 1800s, chocolate became a chewable food. The breakthrough came in 1828, when cocoa butter was extracted from the bean. Twenty years later, an English firm mixed the butter with chocolate liquor, which resulted in the first solid chocolate. Milton Hershey’s first candy bar came on the scene 1894, and Tootsie Rolls hit the market two years later. The popularity of chocolate bars soared during World War I when they were given to soldiers for fast energy. M & Ms gave the industry another boost during World War II; soldiers needed a candy that wouldn’t melt in their hands.

Analysis and Discussion

What is the key sentence of paragraph 4?

On the average, Americans today eat ten pounds of hard chocolate a year. Their number one choice is Snickers, which sells more than a billion bars every year. However, Americans consume far less chocolate than many Western Europeans. The average Dutch person gobbles up more than fifteen pounds a year, while a Swiss pack away almost twenty pounds Chocolate is obviously an international favorite.

Analysis and Discussion

What is the key sentence of paragraph 4?

On the average, Americans today eat ten pounds of hard chocolate a year. Their number one choice is Snickers, which sells more than a billion bars every year. However, Americans consume far less chocolate than many Western Europeans. The average Dutch person gobbles up more than fifteen pounds a year, while a Swiss pack away almost twenty pounds Chocolate is obviously an international favorite.

Analysis and Discussion

Which of the sentences in the paragraph tells about the topic?What are they called?What information are given about the topic stated in the key sentence?What do you call these sentences?

Analysis and Discussion

The key sentence states the topic or main idea of the

paragraph.The supporting details are the

sentences in a paragraph which give information related

to the topic.

Remember

Read and analyze the following paragraphs. Choose the key sentence in each of them.a. There are different steps in solving a problem in Mathematics. First, read the problem carefully and find out what is asked. Next, look for the given facts, then think of the process to be used. Finally, solve for the answer.

Oral Practice

Read and analyze the following paragraphs. Choose the key sentence in each of them.a. There are different steps in solving a problem in Mathematics. First, read the problem carefully and find out what is asked. Next, look for the given facts, then think of the process to be used. Finally, solve for the answer.

Oral Practice

b. Water is used for drinking. We also use it or bathing. It is used for cooking and washing dirty clothes. Water has many uses.

Oral Practice

b. Water is used for drinking. We also use it or bathing. It is used for cooking and washing dirty clothes. Water has many uses.

Oral Practice

Read the following paragraphs. Encircle the key sentence and underline the details which support the key sentence.a. The python is a huge, non-poisonous snake. Pythons live in Africa, Asia and Australia. Although this reptile is not poisonous, it is deadly. The python kills its prey by wrapping itself around it and crushing it. Pythons have very strong bodies. They grow from three to thirty feet long and can weigh up to 300 pounds.

Written Practice

b. The longest mountain ranges on earth are not found on land but underwater in oceans. They are called the mid-ocean ridges. They rise thousands of meters from the ocean floor. In a few places, they surface as islands as in the case of Azores Islands in the Atlantic Ocean.

Written Practice

Read the following paragraphs. Encircle the key sentence and underline the details which support the key sentence.a. The python is a huge, non-poisonous snake. Pythons live in Africa, Asia and Australia. Although this reptile is not poisonous, it is deadly. The python kills its prey by wrapping itself around it and crushing it. Pythons have very strong bodies. They grow from three to thirty feet long and can weigh up to 300 pounds.

Written Practice

b. The longest mountain ranges on earth are not found on land but underwater in oceans. They are called the mid-ocean ridges. They rise thousands of meters from the ocean floor. In a few places, they surface as islands as in the case of Azores Islands in the Atlantic Ocean.

Written Practice

Read the following paragraphs. Underline the key sentence and encircle the supporting details.1. The moon affects bodies of water on Earth. The moon’s gravitational pull lifts the sea like a wave. The water rises very slowly because it is very long moving wave. The wave’s motion reaches to the sea and to the shoreline. This forward and backward moving wave is the tide.

Evaluation

2. The moon’s pull accounts for both high tides and low tides. The moon pulls hardest on the past of Earth nearest it, lifting the water on that part of Earth. The water bulges out toward the moon. Where the bulge is greatest, it is known as high tide. When the moon is on the horizon and the bulge is the lowest, it is our ebb tide.

Evaluation

Read the following paragraphs. Underline the key sentence and encircle the supporting details.1. The moon affects bodies of water on Earth. The moon’s gravitational pull lifts the sea like a wave. The water rises very slowly because it is very long moving wave. The wave’s motion reaches to the sea and to the shoreline. This forward and backward moving wave is the tide.

Evaluation

2. The moon’s pull accounts for both high tides and low tides. The moon pulls hardest on the past of Earth nearest it, lifting the water on that part of Earth. The water bulges out toward the moon. Where the bulge is greatest, it is known as high tide. When the moon is on the horizon and the bulge is the lowest, it is our ebb tide.

Evaluation

Answer the Key Sentence

and Supporting Details Worksheet

Evaluation