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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.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Stated Main Idea, Inferred, Implied, Main Idea Flashcards
Nonfiction terms are included in this review exercise. Interactive vocabulary flashcards are provided for the following words: stated main idea, inferred, implied, and main idea.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Literature: Analyzing Theme
Article explains how to find the theme in a piece of literature by asking yourself a series of questions as you read. RL.9-10.1 Analyzing Theme. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.2
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Finding the Main Idea & Inferences
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart will help student find the main idea in writing as well as make inferences while reading. There are 2 web quests embedded that has numerous exercises with sound. There is an Activote...
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Mrs. Warner's Learning: Main Ideas and Details: What Are They?
Learn about the main idea and the details that support it by viewing the chart.
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: Using Thesis Statements
The first part of this page lists five characteristics of a thesis statement and gives examples of a poor and an effective statement for each characteristic. The second part of the handout dispels common myths about the thesis statement.