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Finding the Main Idea
The carnival is in town! After reading a short excerpt about a day at the carnival, learners use details to determine the story's main idea. They must differentiate the details from the big picture, as there are multiple options they can...
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What's the Big Idea: Exercise 4
For this main idea worksheet, students write the common subject heading for 12 groups of words. Students read the three words in each group and write a title or main idea heading. Students add another example that could be included in...
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Titles Using the Main Idea
Young writers learn to write a good name for a story that tells the big idea. They read a one-sentence illustrated story and from two choices, write a title in capital letters. Nice activity!
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Egypt
The country of Egypt is more than just big pyramids and ancient pharaohs. After reading a brief overview of this African nation, young learners will demonstrate their understanding of the text by identifying the main idea and supporting...
K12 Reader
The Jungle Book
Young readers complete a graphic organizer identifying the main idea and the supporting ideas in a passage taken from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.
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Reading Comprehension: Great Britain
Read to understand! Sounds great and your third graders will read to understand several interesting facts about Great Britain. They read, identify key details in the text, and write to answer five comprehension questions. Learning to...
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Main Idea and Details
In this main idea and details worksheet, students read the paragraphs and the examples sentences. Students write if the sentences are a main idea or detail to complete the 8 examples.
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What's the Big Idea? Exercise 3
For this main idea worksheet, students write the common subject for the group of words. Students add anther word that could be included in the group.
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My Family and Other Animals: Larry's Idea
In this my family and other animals: Larry's Idea worksheet, student answer 22 questions about the story, Larry's Idea, match characters, put events in order, and rewrite sentences.
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The Big Surprise: Reading Comprehension
Four multiple choice questions accompany this passage called, "The Big Surprise." Answers are included on page 2.
Teacher Created Materials
A Volcano Awakes
Blow your pupils' minds with information about some of the world's most awesome natural occurrences: volcanos. Class members read a short article and respond to included questions. The focus of the resource is on understanding and...
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Breaking the Food Chain
Throughout history, the growth of big cities has resulted in the destruction of ecosystems. In the case of Chicago, IL, a grassland that was once home to bison, deer, wolves, and foxes quickly became a booming city of over three million...
Balanced Assessment
How Big is Big?
Now you can create your own monster movie. Learners estimate the size of a scale model monster given comparison statements and analyze these estimates to determine if the scale model accurately portrays a lizard.
Beyond Benign
The Big Melt: Arctic Ice Caps
Are the Arctic ice caps really melting out of existence? Junior climatologists examine the statistics of ice decline through four math-based lessons. Each activity incorporates data, climate information, and environmental impact into an...
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What's the Big Idea? 1
In this recognizing the common subject for groups of words learning exercise, learners read groups of words and write a good title for each list. Students write 12 short answers.
Illustrative Mathematics
Explaining Fraction Equivalence with Picture
Visual models are a great tool for demonstrating the concept of equivalent fractions. Given two pictures, young mathematicians first identify each fraction and then write an explanation for why they are equivalent. Use as a guided...
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The Rise of Big Business & the Labor Movement (6)
In this online interactive American history instructional activity, students answer 13 fill in the blank questions regarding the rise of big business and the labor movement. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
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Supporting Ideas
In this supporting ideas worksheet, students read a few sentences about a girl going to the zoo and fill in the blanks about what she saw there. Students fill in the blanks for 9 sentences.
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Drawing Conclusions: Hidden Ideas
In this drawing conclusions learning exercise, students read a one sentence story. From two choices, students fill in the missing word to tell the story's hidden idea.
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Megabeasts
Create larger-than-life insects for the classroom. Bugs are usually pretty small, but during the Jurassic period they were huge. Kids use diagramming and scale conversion to enlarge a modern day insect so that it is as big as its ancient...
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What's the Big Idea at Hogwarts? Harry Potter Exercise 1
For this Harry Potter worksheet, students are given a list of words representing the book and they are to come up with titles for the group of words. Students come up with 12 titles.
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Vocabulary Practice: Connecting Ideas
In this similar sentences worksheet, learners read 8 sentences. From three choices, students circle the letter of the sentence that has the same meaning as the first sentence.
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Reading Comprehension 5: level 11
Use this reading comprehension exercise at the beginning of the year to assess the reading comprehension level of your class, to remind readers of how to use strategies to decode dense text, or to assess the skills of a new student....
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Reading Comprehension 1: Level 11
Here’s a reading comprehension assessment that will capture the interest of your learners. Stink bugs and the danger they pose to farmers is the subject of the passage, while the eight questions ask readers to infer, predict, summarize...
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