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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Reading for Main Idea and Supporting Ideas (English Iii Reading)

For Students 11th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will learn to find and analyze the main idea and supporting ideas in a variety of texts.
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Other

Scribd.: Kindergarten Reading Comprehension Lesson Plan: Main Idea and Details

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
A five-day lesson plan to teach learners how to find the main idea of a story and generate a title, identify facts and details from a story, and differentiate between main idea and supporting details.
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Read Works

Read Works: Main Idea Kindergarten Unit: What the Book Is Mainly About

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses Amazing Tigers! by Sarah L. Thomson and Ladybugs by Monica Hughes to teach students to use titles, pictures, and text to identify the main idea of an informational text. Ideas for direct...
Interactive
Quizlet

Quizlet: Ccisd 4th Grade Main Idea Match

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
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,...
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Read Works

Read Works: Main Idea 1st Grade Unit

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students learn to use titles and supporting details in both fiction and non-fiction texts in order to identify the main idea of the book in this three-lesson unit. The lessons utilize the books Animal...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Main Idea and Details Cloud

For Teachers 3rd - 7th Standards
Students practice distinguishing between relevant and irrelevant ideas by identifying relevant details in a video segment about a wild horse roundup. Students watch the video, read the transcript, and identify details they believe are...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Supporting Ideas Quick Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
Supporting Ideas Questions: These questions ask you to identify the supporting ideas and specific details mentioned in a passage. What does the passage say? Perhaps the most basic task of the Praxis Core Reading Test is recognizing...
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Read Works

Read Works: Main Idea 3rd Grade Unit

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit teaching students to use the first and last sentence to identify the main idea of a paragraph and the first and last sentence in each paragraph to identify the main idea of a...
Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Main Ideas and Supporting Ideas

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An explanation and examples of main ideas and supporting details.
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Read Works

Read Works: Main Idea Kindergarten Unit: Using Details to Create a Title

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses Amazing Gorillas! by Sarah L. Thomson and In the Wild: Leopards by Stephanie St. Pierreto to teach students how to use textual details to create a title for informational text. Ideas for...
PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Supporting Details

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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SMART Technologies

Smart: Main Idea and Details

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
The interactive lesson is a review of main idea and supporting details.
Handout
Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Part 2 Reading: Determine Main Idea and Supporting Details

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
A reference article for students to learn about how to determine the main idea and supporting details from the text. Click on the Model for an example with explanation and then click on Practice for a practice exercise.
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Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Determine Main Idea and Supporting Details

For Students 2nd - 4th
Read a passage from a story to see how to determine the main idea and supporting details then practice on your own. Click on Model and then Practice.
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McGraw Hill

Mc Graw Hill Global Education: Implied Main Idea, Exercise 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Take this five-question self-correcting quiz to test your understanding of the implied main idea.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Explain the Controlling Idea, Purpose, and Distinguish Details

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will learn how to pinpoint the controlling idea, which not only identifies the main idea, but also answers questions about the author's goal or...
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TES Global

Blendspace: Main Idea and Supporting Details 3.5 Ij, 3.6gh

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
A twelve-part learning module with links to images, videos, and a website on identifying the main idea and supporting details within a text.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Main Idea and Supporting Details

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
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.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Main Idea

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
A learning module that includes six links to videos, images, and websites that reinforce the reading skill of finding the main idea.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Topic & Main Idea

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[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...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Main Idea Lesson

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on the determining the main idea and details.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Main Idea

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[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...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Main Idea 5th Grade

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews main idea strategies.
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Other

Internet4classrooms:3rd Grade Skills Builder: Main Idea

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
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.

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