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Prezi: Main Idea and Supporting Details

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
Slideshow investigates how to find the main idea and key details of a story.
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ProProfs

Pro profs.com: 8th Grade Main Idea Quiz

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
An interactive quiz with four short passages and thirteen multiple choice and extended response questions focusing on main ideas and supporting details. Students can access all passages and questions without an account, but a free...
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Quizlet

Quizlet: Main Idea, Main Idea Test

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Terms associated with main idea are included on this assessment. This test assesses the following text feature terms: central idea, main idea, details, supporting details, summarizing, interesting detail, conclusion, topic, subject, and...
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Quizlet

Quizlet: Main Idea, Main Idea Match

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Terms related to main idea are included in this review "Match" game. Questions are provided for the following words: central idea, main idea, conclusion, infer, inferences, interesting detail, subject, summarizing, and supporting detail....
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Quizlet

Quizlet: Ccisd 4th Grade Main Idea Test

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Reading comprehension terms (nonfiction) are included on this test. This test assesses the following words: topic, main idea, supporting details, summarizing, conclusion, point of view, author's perspective, author's purpose, details,...
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Quizlet

Quizlet: Ccisd 4th Grade Main Idea Flashcards

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Reading strategy terms (nonfiction) are included in this review exercise. Flashcards are provided for the following words: topic, main idea, supporting details, summarizing, conclusion, point of view, author's perspective, author's...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Point to Main Idea/point of View in Literature

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This lesson uses the story Corduroy by Don Freeman to teach the main idea and supporting details of a story, as well as what we mean by the character's point of view. The lesson is done using print materials and a whiteboard with...
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Quizlet

Quizlet: Main Idea, Main Idea Flashcards

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Terms related to main idea are included in this review exercise. Interactive vocabulary flashcards are provided for the following words: main idea, central idea, interesting detail, subject, topic, support, supporting detail, theme, and...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What Is the Main Idea?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
During this activity students begin to identify the main idea of a story they read or hear. Students use graphic organizers to discover the main idea of The Carrot Seed, by Ruth Krauss, and Marsupial Sue, by John Lithgow.
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Mt. San Antonio College: Finding the Main Idea

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
This resource provides practice for students in locating where a main idea sentences is located in an informational paragraph. Guided questions are provided for each practice passage.
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CPALMS

Cpalms: It's All in the Details

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Using this comprehensive lesson plan, students will use a web graphic organizer to learn to record the main idea and details learned from informational text read aloud to them.
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Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Lessons and Activities on Main Ideas for First Grade

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
This site offers links to several lesson plans for teaching main ideas to first and second graders; it also provides and explains some activities for teaching the main idea to first graders.
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Tom Richey

Slide Share: Main Idea and Supporting Details

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
This slideshow focuses on the main idea and supporting details including definitions and examples. A more comprehensive slideshow follows the first.
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SMART Technologies

Smart: Identifying Main Ideas & Details

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
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.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Sl.3.2: Determine the Main Ideas and Supporting Details of a Text

For Students 3rd Standards
Links to 44 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard SL.3.2: Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually,...
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Teachnology

Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Clouds of Main Ideas

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson for 3rd to 5th grade, after reading a story, student write the main idea on a cloud and clip it to a clothesline or bulletin board, and other learners can write supporting details on raindrops and clip them to the correct...
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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Deploying Supporting Materials

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on supporting materials including types of supporting materials and how to effectively incorporate them into your presentation. W.9-10.2b Strong Support, W.11-12.2b Topic/support/aud
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: Wwii on the Home Front: Civic Responsibility

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Smithsonian Education presents a lesson covering the WWII's propaganda program which enforced the ideals of Civic Responsibility. Provides eight pages of poster examples, detailed background over the time period, and the goals of the...
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Analyze Controlling Idea or Thesis, Purpose, and Textual Elements

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Analyze the controlling idea and the specific purpose of the text, identifying the textual elements that support that purpose including the most important details. RI.9-10.2 central idea/summary [Unarchived version is accessible by TX...
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Main Point Quick Guide

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The first question in most Reading Comprehension sets will ask you to identify the statement that best expresses the central idea or the main point that the passage as a whole is designed to convey.
Handout
Curated OER

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

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
See an example of how to determine the main ideas and supporting details of a story.
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CPALMS

Cpalms: What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this instructional activity, students will use What Do You Do With A Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page to identify the main topic and key details using the illustrations and text....
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Tom Richey

Slide Share: Identifying Topics, Main Ideas, and Supporting Details

For Students 8th Standards
A slide show with thirty-nine slides explaining and giving examples of topics, main ideas and supporting details within an informational text.
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Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Reading Literature: Determine Theme/central Idea

For Students 6th Standards
A definition of theme or central idea along with a link to a practice activity. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.2

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