Test your outline like a master writer! Learn how to combine each main idea with your title to verify that all topics truly belong.
🔎 The Core Outlining Rule
If an outline is set up properly, each main idea can be used together with the title to make a complete, sensible sentence. (You may add a few connecting words.)
Animal Homes
I. Caves
II. Underground
III. Underwater
IV. Trees
Say to yourself:
• “Animal homes can be in caves.” (Makes sense!)
• “Animal homes can be underground.” (Makes sense!)
• “Animal homes can be underwater.” (Makes sense!)
• “Animal homes can be in trees.” (Makes sense!)
1. How Animals Use Color
5 Points
Directions: Read each proof sentence aloud. Click the ONE item that FAILS the test (or is only a small detail, not an equal main category).
👉 Click the intruder item to eliminate it:
Rewritten & Corrected Outline
I. Camouflage
II. Lure prey (lowercased 'prey')
III. Startle predators (lowercased 'predators')
2. Birds of the Grasslands
5 Points
Directions: Read each proof sentence aloud. Click the ONE item that FAILS the test (birds that do not belong to grasslands).
👉 Click the intruder item to eliminate it:
Rewritten & Corrected Outline
I. Seed-eating birds
II. Insect-eating birds
III. Birds that run
3. How Months Got Their Names
5 Points
Directions: Read each proof sentence aloud. Click the ONE item that FAILS the test (which item is NOT a month).
👉 Click the intruder item to eliminate it:
Rewritten & Corrected Outline
I. January
II. April
III. August
4. Inventors
5 Points
Directions: Read each proof sentence aloud. Click the ONE item that FAILS the test (which item is an object/machine, NOT a person).