Reading skill
Central idea
Example (Marie Curie: More Than a Flash of Genius, Grade 9)
Which statement best expresses the central idea of the passage?
Answer: Marie Curie's achievement grew from years of careful, persistent work rather than a single flash of genius.. The first and last paragraphs frame the career as slow, deliberate work.
Grade 9
- Marie Curie: More Than a Flash of Genius Biography
- Ada Lovelace: More Than a Flash of Genius Biography
- Jane Goodall: More Than a Flash of Genius Biography
- Thomas Edison: More Than a Flash of Genius Biography
- Louis Pasteur: More Than a Flash of Genius Biography
- Isaac Newton: More Than a Flash of Genius Biography
- Srinivasa Ramanujan: More Than a Flash of Genius Biography
- Frederick Banting: More Than a Flash of Genius Biography
- Fiona Wood: More Than a Flash of Genius Biography
- Kathleen Lonsdale: More Than a Flash of Genius Biography
Grade 10
- George Washington Carver: More Than a Flash of Genius Biography
- Alexander Graham Bell: More Than a Flash of Genius Biography
- Katherine Johnson: More Than a Flash of Genius Biography
- Mae Jemison: More Than a Flash of Genius Biography
- Wangari Maathai: More Than a Flash of Genius Biography
- Ernest Rutherford: More Than a Flash of Genius Biography
- Kalpana Chawla: More Than a Flash of Genius Biography
- Mary Anning: More Than a Flash of Genius Biography
- Allan Cormack: More Than a Flash of Genius Biography