The interactive lesson is a review of main idea and supporting details.

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.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This graphic organizer provides a webbing framework for students to analyze the main idea/theme and supporting details of a reading passage or historical event. A template for students to follow is given.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Recognizing the main idea is the key to good comprehension. The main idea is a general idea under which fits all the supporting material of the passage or paragraph. Learn and use three strategies that...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This elementary flipchart promotes creative writing using supportive details. Students will explore examples from literature and consider ways to improve their writing.

Learn and review the life cycle of a butterfly, with slides for taking notes. Includes a link to a great YouTube Video!

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

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart students match the high frequency words in a concentration game format. I use this as a center activity.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart covers all of the areas of a paragraph including topic sentence, supporting sentences, and clincher sentence. Different kinds of supporting details are explained and students can practice...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a BBC site supporting poem reading and writing.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Flipchart walks through the lesson on Proportions and similarity, as well as some of the theorems that support the concept.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart teaches about the journey from source to sea about rivers and identifies relevant vocabulary supported by photographs.

[Free Registration/Login Required] The flipchart explores habitats that support the different kinds of animals that live in the state. Students match pictures of animals to their habitats, unscramble letters to find the names of the...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students often have a difficult time comprehending the timescale and distances of the universe. I have used this flipchart to start the discussion of the formation of our universe and how we know about...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is to be used while reading the book The Three Little Javelinas. It includes a phonics review, vocabulary and drawing conclusions lessons, compare/contrast, and websites that would...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart comes from the Channel 4 website. Pictures and text are used to support understanding of life as a child during Victorian times.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart supports the study of Karen Hesse's Witness and includes an informational video about the Klu Klux Klan.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A flipchart to support a history lesson on Anne Frank's secret Annex; the pupils imagine they are going to hide for two years like Anne and draw a plan of where they would hide and what they would take...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A flipchart showing the separate stages of a frontal depression with reference to the weather charts that plot them, diagrams of the air masses that are moved around in them, and also of the cloud...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart supports lessons from the "Food - a fact of life" website. Pupils will be able to discuss what foods they eat and when, identify different types of meals and discuss which are their...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart supports lessons from the Food - a fact of life website. Pupils will be able to identify a healthy meal working out what are the key ingredients for the meals presented.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart supports lessons from the 'Food - a fact of life' website. Pupils will be able to understand why their bodies need energy, how much energy is in certain food types and who needs more...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart explores the physical features of India, and contrasts them with Wales. It supports other resources from the NGfL Cymru website about India. There is a link to those on the first page of...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Using Hans Anderson's Little Match Girl teachers can engage children in high quality discussion and support language development.