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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Text Analysis: Compare and Contrast [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students use graphic organizers to compare and contrast topics within a text. Materials are included.

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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 students 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 young scholars 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: Keys to the Main Idea [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards

A lesson plan in which students 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 learners 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: Expository Text Structure: Book Look [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students look through a book to identify text features and complete a graphic organizer. 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 Connections

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to describe a character or compare and contrast two characters from 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 learners read a narrative text and complete graphic organizers to analyze a character. Materials are included. [PDF]

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Reading Rockets

Reading Rockets: Teach Expository Text Structure to Facilitate Comprehension

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards

Expository text can be challenging to young readers because of the unfamiliar concepts and vocabulary it presents. Discover ways to help your students analyze expository text structures and pull apart the text to uncover the main idea...

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South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All: Finding Theme

For Teachers 3rd Standards

The students will be able to determine the theme of a story by recalling key details that support the theme.

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Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Web Lessons: Get the Main Idea

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards

This resource provides practice finding the main idea by having students read a paragraph and choose the main idea. Then it asks students to take what they have learned and apply it to a book of their choice, and then write a paragraph...

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ACT360 Media

Writing Den: Supporting Details

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards

A short explanation and example of supporting sentences, what they do, and how to write them.

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University of Houston

University of Houston: Atlantis: Main Idea Story 4

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards

An exercise in finding the main idea. Read a short nonfiction paragraph about where different animals live, and click on the correct main idea.

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Quia

Quia: Metaphor Quiz

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards

Read five short paragraphs and choose the main idea of each. Check the answers when finished to see how many were right.

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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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Quia

Quia: Main Ideas!

For Students 3rd Standards

Read a short text and determine the main idea in this Battleship style learning game.

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Quia

Quia: 3rd Grade Main Idea

For Students 3rd Standards

Read a short text and then choose the correct main idea in this three-question quiz.

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