This interactive lesson offers clarification and practice in the realm of main ideas and details.

A slide show with fourteen slides with information and examples on finding the main ideas and supporting details in an informational text.

Read a short informational text and determine the main idea and supporting details. Click to check your answers then click on Practice.

A slide show with seventeen slides teaching about main ideas and supporting details within a text.

This tutorial focuses on supporting details using a video of a paragraph from a book showing the topic sentence and two strong, reliable, supporting details. This is followed by a slideshow that stresses the need for variety in the types...

A PDF giving notes and examples on major and minor supporting details and showing how they support the main idea of a text.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A two-activity unit on main idea and details through which students use the topic sentence to identify the main idea of a paragraph and categorize details as main idea or supporting. With free login,...

To understand a text, you must understand the central idea of the story. Learn how to recognize the central idea and supporting details with this article. Click the links at bottom right.

Written exercises related to identifying the main ideas and details are provided on this module. Students will enjoy learning about Valentine's Day in these text structure exercises.

A learning module with thirty links to texts, slide shows, videos, and images that teach about finding the main idea and supporting details in a written passage.

Take this five question self-correcting quiz to test your understanding of the implied main idea.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to identify main ideas through headings and chapter titles, and then to write appropriate titles of their own. Lessons are based on the books...

In this reading comprehension lesson unit, students are guided in learning how to find the main theme or idea of a text and understanding how details in the text convey that. Includes lots of exercises and examples, as well as...

Learning how to determine what is the main idea and what are the details in a story helps you become a better reader.

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.

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.

This activity asks students to differentiate between main ideas and supporting details.

Students practice finding the central idea and summary of a nonfiction piece about sea turtle nesting.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a nonfiction text about what it takes to be an actor and answer questions about comprehension, main idea, supporting details, vocabulary, transitions, and more. Links to a paired text and...

Learn about the difference between a stated main idea and an implied main idea. Then, practice finding the stated and implied main ideas in two short texts.

CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...

This interactive quiz assesses students' reading comprehension skills of informational text passages. Students will read 30 short passages and answer question about a detail for each.

An expository essay written by a sixth-grader with notes calling attention to important writing concepts evident in the essay including a well-written title, opening sentence, thesis, main ideas, supporting details, and more.

A Seed Discussion is a two-part strategy used to teach students how to engage in discussions about assigned readings. In the first part, students read selected text and identify "seeds" or key concepts of a passage which may need...