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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.
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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.
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Prezi: Recalling Facts and Details
Slideshow investigates how to identify facts or details in a story.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Nate the Great San Francisco Detective
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is based on the Harcourt Series, Nate the Great. This flipchart will guide your students through the main idea, vocabulary practice, spelling practice, grammar activities, and daily...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Topic & Main Idea
[Free Registration/Login Required] Recognizing the main idea is the key to good comprehension. The main idea is a general idea under which fits all the supporting material of the passage or paragraph. Learn and use three strategies that...
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Landmark School Outreach: Finding the Main Idea
This reading strategy resource provides steps for identifying the main idea of an informational text. Example informational text paragraphs are provided, along with detailed explanations for the processes used in identifying the main...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Writing Review
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart students will interactively review the following areas of writing: parts of a paragraph; unity, coherence, and elaboration; and the 4 types of writing.
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Class Flow: Clouds
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews various clouds and their characteristics. Included are examples and descriptions of clouds.
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Class Flow: Gettysburg Address
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students analyze historical speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King to find rhetorical devices and features that make these speeches memorable.
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Class Flow: Main Idea
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a third grade, main idea & details flipchart. It contains an activator, teacher modeling, guided practice, graphic organizers, independent practice, and summarizer. It uses techniques such...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Main Idea and Details
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use this lesson to review main idea and detail. Students can do this whole group and then practice as a center.
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Class Flow: Main Idea 5th Grade
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews main idea strategies.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Skimming for Main Ideas
This lesson explains how to scan a question for the main idea.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: What's the Main Idea? Quiz
This main idea quiz begins with a page explaining how to find the main idea followed by the self-scoring quiz. Students read short passages and select the main idea. A score sheet is presented at the end of the quiz.
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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.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Graphic Organizer Spider Graphic
[Free Registration/Login Required] This graphic organizer provides a webbing framework for students to analyze the main idea/theme and supporting details of a reading passage or historical event. A template for students to follow is given.
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Class Flow: Main Idea Lesson
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on the determining the main idea and details.
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Class Flow: Dinner at Aunt Connie's
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is to go along with the story Dinner at Aunt Connie's from the Scholastic Literacy Place grade 4 reading series. The pages contain vocabulary work as well as hit the key skills of main...
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Web Lesson: Get the Idea
Read through a lesson about main ideas and supporting details to understand their importance. Practice choosing the main idea of three nonfiction paragraphs. Features practice activities to enhance learning.
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How to Study: Strategy for Reading Textbooks
This site gives a method, called SQRW, that can help you with your reading. It is very similar to SQ3R.
Education Development Center
Tv411: Tune in for Reading: Reading: Strategies for Better Reading
Self-checking interactive tutorial puts reading comprehension skills to work by asking learners to make inferences, predict what happens next, and identify the main ideas in a series of short reading passages. Related materials include...
Quia
Quia: Reading: Finding the Main Idea
Students read forty short texts and choose the main idea of each text. Correct answers are provided for any missed, and the score is tallied along the way.
Quizlet
Quizlet: 2nd Grade Unit 2 Reading: Main Idea: Flashcards
This interactive set of flashcards, helps students learn the terms and definitions associated with the main idea. These terms include the following: topic, topic sentence, main idea, supporting details, summary, summarize, retell,...
Quizlet
Quizlet: Stated Main Idea, Inferred, Implied, Main Idea Match
Nonfiction reading terms are included in this review "Match" game. Questions are provided for the following words: stated main idea, inferred, implied, and main idea. Images of each of these nonfiction reading terms are also included.