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...

This slideshow focuses on adding details to a paragraph. It covers ways to add details, primary and secondary support points, a flow chart organizer, moving from the topic sentence to a final essay, and strategies for generating and...

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

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

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.

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

This Center for Urban Education resource provides a downloadable graphic organizer for students to use when analyzing the evidence that authors use to support a claim. RI.9-10.5 ideas/claims developed. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.8

A quick guide to approaching questions that ask you to identify something that is "strongly supported." On questions that ask you to find the choice that is most strongly supported by a stimulus, the answer does not have to be...

A learning module that begins with "Behind Bars, Vets with PTSD Face a New War Zone With Little Support" by Quil Lawrence, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed...

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.

The thymus gland is responsible for the production of T-lymphocytes. Although cancer in this gland is rare, it can affect people of any age. This comprehensive site delves into symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of this rare form of cancer.

A brief, yet detailed explanation of breathing and od the proper support needed for singing.

This entry provides the rules and examples for subject-verb agreement under a variety of situations such as with collective nouns, inverted subjects, compound subjects, indefinite pronoun subjects, and when a phrase or clause separates...

This entry focuses on forming complete sentences by identifying fragments, comma splices, and fused sentences and learning how to correct them. It provides the rules, examples of errors, and examples of how to correct each type of error.

This entry defines verbals, gerunds, participles, and infinitives; discusses each their different functions in sentences, and provides examples of each.

This is a 10-question, self-grading practice/quiz on translating and creating a verb phrase using the verb expansion rule.

This is a 10-question, self-grading practice/quiz on translating and creating a verb phrase using the verb expansion rule.

This is a 10-question, self-grading practice/quiz on translating and creating a verb phrase using the verb expansion rule.

This is a 10-question, self-grading practice/quiz on translating and creating a verb phrase using the verb expansion rule.

This is a 10-question, self-grading practice/quiz on translating and creating a verb phrase using the verb expansion rule.

This entry focuses on the types of determiners including articles, possessive nouns, numbers, indefinite pronouns, and demonstrative pronouns and provides examples of each.

This entry focuses on the Elements of Sentence Construction including subjects and predicates, phrases and clauses, compound sentence elements, and avoiding fragments, run-ons, and fused sentences.

This entry focuses on sentence pattern transformations including to active/passive voice, cleft, interrogative with yes or no answer, negative, emphasis, and to interrogative, imperative, or exclamatory. It includes an explanation and...

Emergency drills (fire drills especially) can be terrifying for preschoolers. It's loud, interruptive, and there can be kids everywhere! This site includes examples of read-aloud books and drill routine posters you can adapt to your...