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Determining importance
Rainforest rangers – 2
5. Find and copy three different sentences or phrases that are not important to the
main idea of the text.
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6. Tick (✔) the important information.
Cross (8) the information that is not important.
Eyespot butterflies are huge insects and can be found in the rainforest.
Hairy spiders in the rainforest are huge.
Gigantic ants can be found in the rainforest.
Banded snakes that slither and move quietly are found in the rainforest.
Large chameleons that camouflage themselves, hang down on vines
and have yellow tongues can be found in the rainforest.
Enormous centipedes that crawl over tree buttress roots and eat beetles
can be found in the rainforest.
Rainforest animals eat each other.
There are four beetles in the rainforest.
7. What do you think is the main idea of the text?
Write two sentences using the important information in the text and clues in the
illustration.
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