The Write Place
Literacy Education Online: Logical Fallacies
This site from the St. Cloud State University provides many links in this index with general writing help. Under "Development" you'll find "Sensory Details." Under "Logical Fallicies" you'll find a link by the same name. Look under...
ACT360 Media
Writing Den: Paragraphs
How do you write a paragraph? Use this site to learn more about the different parts of a paragraph.
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Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Column Notes [Pdf]
Teachers will learn about the Column Notes graphic organizer, a tool that will help students analyze and synthesize what is viewed read, viewed, or heard. Reproducible Column Notes are provided.
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: 4th Grade Use Details and Examples
This reference from the McGraw-Hill CCCS Literacy eHandbook discusses the importance of recalling explicit details. The importance of inferencing skills with a how-to graphic organizer for making inferences are included. Students may...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Actions Speak Louder Than Words
After hearing and discussing an excerpt from Sharon Creech's Walk Two Moons, students will plan to create a unique description of a character that uses memorable actions that "show" a person's character. They will brainstorm verbs that...
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Part 2 Reading: Informational Text: How Reasons Support Key Points
Get an example of how to identify an author's main idea in a text on this site. Also, learn how to recognize supporting ideas to main ideas presented in a text. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.2
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Counting Up or Down Stories
The writer will brainstorm situations where individuals or people in a group count up or count down out loud together. Using the ending of chapter 5 of Wringer by Jerry Spinelli as a model, the writer will plan a story where someone (or...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Facts
This lesson clarifies what writers mean when using the term "facts." This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Prepositions
A screencast lesson [2:26] introducing prepositions, showing how they begin prepositional phrases, and telling how to use prepositional phrases to add different types of details to sentences.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Supporting Details
A six-slide presentation explaining the importance of using supporting details and describing different types of details that can be used to support an idea.
Read Works
Read Works:genre Studies: Informational Texts Kindergarten Unit: New Information
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses Giant Pandas by Gail Gibbons to teach learners how to identify facts learned from an informational text. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice are included....
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Scholastic
Scholastic: Informational Text: Reading Response: Main Ideas & Details [Pdf]
This graphic organizer can be used with students when they read informational text. Students will write the main idea in a central oval and then write four details that support the main idea of this reproducible graphic organizer.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Some Animals Don't Do That!
In this lesson plan, Dogs Don't Wear Sneakers by Laura Numeroff, is used as a mentor text for to highlight the trait of idea development. The content focus of the lesson plan is to highlight what topics cannot do. Students generate a...
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Scholastic
Scholastic Teaching Resources: Five Finger Facts [Pdf]
From Just-Right Reading Response Activity Sheets for Young Learners, this graphic organizer can be used when students read informational texts. As responses to nonfiction, students will write the following information about their...
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Scholastic
Scholastic Teaching Resources: Informational Reading Response [Pdf]
This graphic organizer can be used with students when they read informational text. Students will write three facts they learned, two questions they still have after reading, and one interesting fact that they want to share.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Relevant Evidence and Well Chosen Details (English Ii Writing)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Write an essay that contains relevant evidence and well-chosen details.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Frog and Toad Are Friends
In this instructional activity for early readers, students will describe the major events in the plot, describe the characters, and ask and answer questions about the first chapter in Frog and Toad Are Friends---Spring.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Main Idea, Main Idea Test
Terms associated with main idea are included on this assessment. This test assesses the following text feature terms: central idea, main idea, details, supporting details, summarizing, interesting detail, conclusion, topic, subject, and...
Quizlet
Quizlet: Main Idea and Details 2nd Grade Flashcards
Flashcards with main idea statements are available on this site. Students will read a series of details. Then students will read the main idea after each set of details.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Main Idea and Details 2nd Grade Match
Identifying the main idea is the task for this "Match" game. Students will read a series of details and match the main idea that "matches" the list of supporting details.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Ccisd 4th Grade Main Idea Test
Reading comprehension terms (nonfiction) are included on this test. This test assesses the following words: topic, main idea, supporting details, summarizing, conclusion, point of view, author's perspective, author's purpose, details,...
Quizlet
Quizlet: Ccisd 4th Grade Main Idea Match
Reading comprehension terms (nonfiction) are included in this review "Match" game. Questions are provided for the following words: main idea, summarizing, point of view, summarizing, topic, support, conclusion, details, author's purpose,...
Quizlet
Quizlet: Ccisd 4th Grade Main Idea Flashcards
Reading strategy terms (nonfiction) are included in this review exercise. Flashcards are provided for the following words: topic, main idea, supporting details, summarizing, conclusion, point of view, author's perspective, author's...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Analyze Nonfiction: Central Idea [Pdf]
This graphic organizer will help students analyze nonfiction pieces. Students will use the graphic organizer to guide them as they identify the central idea and supporting details.