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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Main Idea Mania

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a text and record the main ideas and supporting details on one of the graphic organizers provided. Materials are included. [PDF]

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Projected Paragraphs

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a text and highlight the most important details. Materials are included. [PDF]

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Classic Classifying

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which young scholars read a text and write main ideas and supporting details in boxes on a graphic organizer. Materials are included. [PDF]

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Detail Delight [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a text use a graphic organizer to record the topic and supporting details. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Main Idea [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a text and then read it again highlighting the key words and phrases that are important for understanding the text. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Exploration [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a text and complete a graphic organizer to identify the main idea and supporting details. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Summary Step Up [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete a graphic organizer to show the plot elements of the story. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Keys to the Main Idea [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards

A lesson plan in which learners read a text a complete a graphic organizer to identify the main ideas and supporting details. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Just the Facts

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a text and complete a graphic organizer to identify the topic and supporting details or facts. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Narrative Text Structure: Retell Ring [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and answer questions about the plot. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Check a Trait

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete a graphic organizer to describe the characters in the story. Materials are included. [PDF]

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Character Consideration

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to analyze a character. Materials are included. [PDF]

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Character Characteristics

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to analyze a character. Materials are included. [PDF]

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Instructional Routines

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

This site offers PDF grade-specific lesson plans for teaching various reading skills for grades K-3. These include phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.

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Read Works

Readworks: Reading Lesson 3: To Persuade

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

This instructional activity focuses on identifying text evidence that shows that the author's purpose is to persuade. Draw a conclusion about what the author is trying to persuade the reader to do or think. Text, worksheet, and chart are...

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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Guiding Students: Expository Text With Text Feature Walks

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

Explains how to guide students in examining text features during a walkthrough of an expository text.

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Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Get the Idea

For Students K - 1st Standards

In this reading comprehension exercise, young readers will learn to identify main ideas in paragraphs. Includes multiple choice options with hints.

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Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Describe Characters

For Students 2nd Standards

This learning module focuses on reading for key ideas and details including main characters, problems, and solutions. It provides a detailed example with an explanation and a practice paragraph with questions.

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Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Get the Idea

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards

Learn about and practice finding the main idea in short reading passages.

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Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Identify the Main Topic and Key Details

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards

This is a practice exercise to help teach how to find the main topic of a passage by looking at key details. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.2

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Quia

Quia: 3rd Grade Main Idea

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards

This short interactive activity assesses students' ability to identify main idea. Students will read three short passages and identify the main idea of each.

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Other

Strategies for Reading Comprehension:reciprocal Teaching

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

Use this page to understand the reciprocal teaching strategy that includes the role of the clarifier in student groups.

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Pearson

Pearson Education: Practice Reading Section

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards

This resource provides short reading selections that encourage reading comprehension. Students are challenged with questions about the selection to test their understanding.

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Scholastic

Scholastic: Teaching With Nonfiction: Teach Text Features

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards

A brief lesson plan, this site offers an example of non-fiction text and a graphic organizer to help orient young scholars to the features they need to use when reading for information.

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