Tom Richey
Slide Share: Identifying Topics, Main Ideas, and Supporting Details
A slide show with thirty-nine slides explaining and giving examples of topics, main ideas and supporting details within an informational text.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Connection Web
This graphic organizer helps students link supporting details to connections such as text-to-text, text-to-self, text-to-world. It can be used as a reading strategy or a prewriting strategy.
Quia
Quia: Crct Practice: Main Idea
An interactive quiz with seven multiple choice questions over four short reading passages. Questions focus on identifying the main ideas and supporting details and choosing an appropriate summary. When finished, students can submit...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Guidelines for Determining an Author's Main Idea
Follow the steps in this printable PDF to identify the main topic and key details of an informational text.
Quia
Quia: Main Idea and Details Rags to Riches
Read a short text and then choose its main idea in this Rags to Riches style game.
Other
Review Game Zone: Heroic Ants Main Idea and Details
An online learning game where students choose the correct supporting detail and then see how far they can get an ant to travel through the air. Answer more questions to get more tries for the farthest distance.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Main Idea and Details
The interactive lesson is a review of main idea and supporting details.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Identifying Main Ideas & Details
This lesson operates on the Scaffold Instructional of Release model (I do, we do, you do). Students will use the main idea and supporting details to expand understanding of a variety of texts.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Descriptive Papers: Key Elements: Lesson 2
This lesson goes over words, phrases, and key elements that are included in descriptive papers. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Descriptive Papers: Key Elements."
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Examples as Supporting Details
This lesson discusses how examples can be used as supporting details. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.1.b
TES Global
Blendspace: Main Idea
A learning module that includes six links to videos, images, and websites that reinforce the reading skill of finding the main idea.
University of Virginia Library
Prism: "Influences on Achievement" Visualization
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted Grant Wiggins' blog post "Influences on Achievement." Strategies we currently use are blue while strategies that are easy to begin are red, and the most...
TES Global
Blendspace: Main Idea and Supporting Details 3.5 Ij, 3.6gh
A twelve-part learning module with links to images, videos, and a website on identifying the main idea and supporting details within a text.
TES Global
Blendspace: Main Idea and Supporting Details
An eight-part learning module with links to images, texts, videos, slides, and a quiz on identifying the main idea and supporting details within a text.
TES Global
Blendspace: What Is the Main Idea and Supporting Details?
A learning module with thirty links to texts, slide shows, videos, and images that teach about finding the main idea and supporting details in a written passage.
University of Virginia Library
Prism: Centrifugal Force (Latin for "Center Feeling") in the Ukraine
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read Max Fisher's article about centrifugal force in the Ukraine, and highlight evidence to support his claim.
University of Virginia Library
Prism: Centrifugal Force (Latin for "Center Feeling") in the Ukraine
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read Max Fisher's article about centrifugal force in the Ukraine, and highlight evidence to support his claim.
Other
Prezi: Finding the Main Idea in 2nd Grade
By watching this slideshow, students will learn how to find the main idea in a paragraph and the supporting details. It uses the analogy of the layers of a hamburger deluxe.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Using Specific Detail
[Free Registration/Login Required] This elementary flipchart promotes creative writing using supportive details. Students will explore examples from literature and consider ways to improve their writing.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Writing Showing Feelings
[Free Registration/Login Required] This elementary flipchart shows how writers express feelings. Instead of telling the reader, they show the reader through descriptive writing.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Common Errors in Body Paragraphs
This lesson goes over common issues in body paragraphs.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Supporting Details: Anecdotes
Anecdotes are literary tools used to pique interest and engage readers. Used to evoke emotion, anecdotes are best used in the introduction or conclusion. This tutorial focuses on how to use anecdotes appropriately and effectively to make...
Other
Internet4classrooms:3rd Grade Skills Builder: Main Idea
This interactive Language Arts skill-building site provides links to interactive activities that focus on finding the main idea of a reading selection. Online lessons, games and quizzes challenges students understanding of main idea.