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Mt. San Antonio College: Finding the Main Idea
Learn about the main idea and get tips on how to find it. After practicing with several short texts, learn how to answer different types of questions about main idea and practice each type.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Guidelines for Determining an Author's Main Idea
Follow the steps in this printable PDF to identify the main topic and key details of an informational text.
TES Global
Blendspace: What Is the Main Idea and Supporting Details?
A twelve-part learning module with links to videos, texts, and images that explore the idea of love to go along with William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Classifying Info [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students read a text and complete a graphic organizer to find the main idea and supporting details. Materials are included.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Research Building Blocks: Skim, Scan, and Scroll
Contains plans for two lessons on locating supporting details that are part of a larger unit on researching a state symbol. It works on skills like determining the most important information, using key words to identify relevant...
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Part 2 Reading: Informational Text: Reasons and Evidence in Text
Reasons and evidence are given by the author to support topics or ideas. In this resource, learn about finding reasons and evidence in a text. Includes downloadable worksheet.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Projected Paragraphs
A lesson plan in which students read a text and highlight the most important details. Materials are included. [PDF]
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Ccss Literacy E Handbook: Informational Text: Reasons and Evidence in Text
A short explanation of using reasons and evidence as supporting details. Click the link to see a model of how to identify reasons and evidence in an informational text. Click on the Model button on the bottom right to see a model.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Expository Escapade: Detective's Handbook
Working on higher-level thinking skills with your readers is made easier with this lesson plan. You will have your learners connect with and analyze a mystery story at their grade-appropriate level. Lesson plan, printable worksheets, and...
University of Virginia Library
Prism: "Influences on Achievement" Visualization
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted Grant Wiggins' blog post "Influences on Achievement." Strategies we currently use are blue while strategies that are easy to begin are red, and the most...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Reading Informational Text: Grades K 1
This learning resource will show teachers how to model how to teach students to describe connections between pieces of information in a text.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: The True Story of Christopher Columbus
In this lesson, 5th graders analyze two nonfiction passages on Christopher Columbus to determine facts and author's bias and its influence on the readers.
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