PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Supporting Details Explained

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow focuses on supporting details; it discusses their purpose, the audience, and the point to be made. It lists the five most common types of supporting details: facts, statistics, opinions, examples, and personal observations...
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Research Building Blocks: Skim, Scan, and Scroll

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
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...
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Classifying Info [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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.
Unit Plan
Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Part 2 Reading: Informational Text: Reasons and Evidence in Text

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
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.
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Projected Paragraphs

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a text and highlight the most important details. Materials are included. [PDF]
Website
Other

Ccss Literacy E Handbook: Informational Text: Reasons and Evidence in Text

For Students 4th Standards
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.
Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: What Is the Main Idea and Supporting Details?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
Website
Scholastic

Scholastic: Guidelines for Determining an Author's Main Idea

For Students 7th Standards
Follow the steps in this printable PDF to identify the main topic and key details of an informational text.
Activity
University of Virginia Library

Prism: "Influences on Achievement" Visualization

For Students 9th - 10th
[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...
Lesson Plan
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Expository Escapade: Detective's Handbook

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
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...
Handout
University of North Carolina

University of North Carolina: Writing Center: Writing About Literature (Fiction)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students are instructed in a nine-step process of how to write a literary response paper that includes a thesis, strong ideas, and specific supporting details from the text. W.11-12.9a Amer Lit 18th,19th, 20th cen/Analy
Professional Doc
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Reading Informational Text: Grades K 1

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This learning resource will show teachers how to model how to teach students to describe connections between pieces of information in a text.
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: The True Story of Christopher Columbus

For Teachers 5th Standards
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.
Website
Other

Mt. San Antonio College: Finding the Main Idea

For Students 4th - 6th
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.
Activity
E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Writing Persuasive Essays

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Persuasive writing is the topic of this article. Students will learn the parts of the persuasive essay and how to write an effective persuasive essay.
Website
Other

The Authentication of the Turin Shroud

For Students 9th - 10th
This website introduces one of the most profound and controversial subjects ever uncovered in the history of mankind; the discovery of the Shroud of Turin, which is purported to be the authentic burial shroud of Christ. In addition to...
Handout
Other

Performing Songwriter: Richard Rodgers

For Students 9th - 10th
Uncover the story of a major player in American musical theater, Richard Rogers. Videos and details of his contributions and his partners support the impact he made to the profession.
Lesson Plan
Other

Cte Online: Butte County Office of Education: Evolution and Embryos

For Teachers 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A detailed lesson plan with downloadable PowerPoints and student handouts that examines how the study of comparative embryology provides support for the theory of evolution.
Website
PBS

Pbs News Hour: Israeli Settlement Proposal Angers u.s. Officials

For Students 9th - 10th
Israel's plan to build new homes in the Palestinian territories was met by a negative reaction by the USA. Learn thebackground and details of the plan, and why the USA did not respond in a favorable light. Support resources are included....
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Conferencing

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Editing is a step that can often be overlooked in Kindergarten; however, it is crucial that our young scholars understand how and why to go back and fix their writing! In this lesson, students will take suggestions from the teacher and...

Other popular searches