PPT
Other

Prezi: Main Idea and Supporting Details

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Defines and provides examples of the main idea of a paragraph and also explores the meaning of key details.
PPT
Other

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.
Interactive
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....
Activity
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...
Lesson Plan
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.
PPT
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.
Whiteboard
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.
Article
Other

Smekens Educational Solutions: Expose K 2 Readers to Annotation Strategies

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This article discusses how to begin teaching students in K-2 to record their ideas about text using highlighters, colored pens, large graphic organizers, and sticky notes. Students can retell a story with a storyboard, use a web to find...
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Exploration [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a text and complete a graphic organizer to identify the main idea and supporting details. Materials are included.
Unit Plan
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...
Lesson Plan
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....
PPT
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.
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Personification With "Grass" by Carl Sandburg

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will be reading the poem "Grass" and identify the main idea and supporting details with a partner. Students will then write a poem using personification.
Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Labor Day Address:barack Obama Speech [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
"Labor Day Address: Barack Obama Speech" is a one page, campaign speech by Barack Obama given on August 24, 2008, in Billings, Montana. It is followed by questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it includes...
Unit Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Passages: The Unknown Hall of Famer

For Teachers 7th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a nonfiction text about baseball Hall of Famer George "Lolin" Osorio and answer questions about comprehension, supporting details, inferences, main idea, transitions, and more. Links to a...
Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Critical Reading: Supporting Claims

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on supporting claims including the distinction between main ideas and supporting details, relationship between purpose and supporting details, sufficient and related support, and support and elaboration. W.9-10.1a...
PPT
Tom Richey

Slide Share: Distinguishing Main Ideas and Supporting Details

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This downloadable slideshow focuses on main ideas and supporting details including definitions, identification, and practicing with paragraphs. RI.9-10.2 central idea/summary
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Just the Facts

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a text and complete a graphic organizer to identify the topic and supporting details or facts. Materials are included.
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Getting to Know Adelita

For Teachers 1st
In this instructional activity, 1st graders will describe the characters, setting, and key details in "Adelita: A Mexican Cinderella" by Tomie de Paolaby. With guidance and support, students will record the details on a circle map.
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: From Seed to Plant

For Teachers K - 1st
Students will use the illustrations and details in the text to describe how plants grow. This lesson uses a complex text to allow students to analyze the pictures in From Seed to Plant and From Seed to Pumpkin. Included are videos and...
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Creative Writing Through Wordless Picture Books

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Need help planning ways to creatively teach your students chronological order? Here's a great place to start. While the site is specifically geared toward the middle school student, it is a teaching idea which could easily be adapted for...
Website
Other

Ccss Literacy E Handbook: Informational Text: Use Details and Examples

For Students 4th Standards
A short explanation of how to use explicit details in an informational text to make inferences. Click on Model at the bottom right to see a model with examples.
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Other

Academic Reading: Sample Task [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Academic Reading task provides a practice assessment for identifying headings and subheadings. In the task, students must read the selection and then determine the best subheading for each of the sections.
Handout
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Using Testimony

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the use of testimony in a speech including the difference between peer and expert testimony, questions to consider before using testimony, how to incorporate expert testimony, and an example of incorporating expert...

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