Worksheet on identifying main idea and details from a historical text about ice cream.

A worksheet titled "Main Idea & Details" with a passage about ice cream history in 1875, Illinois, and a diagram for identifying main idea and supporting details.

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- Detail: In 1975, Evanston, Illinois, passed a law banning ice cream sodas on Sundays.
- Detail: Local drug stores served ice cream with syrup instead, and customers called it “sundae.”
- Detail: City leaders eventually changed the spelling to “sundae” so it wouldn’t be associated with Sunday.
- Main Idea: The dessert “sundae” got its name and spelling because of a local law in Evanston, Illinois, that banned ice cream sodas on Sundays.

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