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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Supporting Details: Facts and Statistics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson discusses how statistics can be used as supporting details. This tutorial shares a short audio lesson [05:16] and supplemental notes with the lesson's content.
Study Guide
University of South Florida

Fcat Express: Teaching Strategies (Reading) [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 4th Standards
Printable, fifty-five page PDF file of a staff development manual containing strategies for teaching reading. Includes chapters on vocabulary, main ideas and supporting details, author's purpose, chronological order, plot and conflict...
Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Just the Facts

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a text and complete a graphic organizer to identify the topic and supporting details or facts. Materials are included.
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Writing a Topic & Concluding Paragraph for the Essay

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
This lesson is a final step towards supporting students to practice writing an informative/explanatory paragraph conveying complex ideas and presenting information clearly and accurately. Second-grade students can usually write a...
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Persuasion Map

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A printable graphic organizer for students to use when writing on opinion or persuasive essay. Directions on how to use this type of graphic organizer as well as lists of teaching ideas, lesson plans, and other resources are also...
Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Writing Workshop: Persuasive Writing

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
This site has a great unit that leads students all the way through the writing process while composing a persuasive paper. Includes a teacher guide, mini-lessons, assessment rubric, and worksheets to help out at each step of the way.
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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
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Fact Strip [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a text and identify the topic and four facts presented within the text. Materials are included.
Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works: Genre Studies: Informational Texts: Pictures and Photographs

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses All About Cats and Kittens by Emily Neye to teach students how to identify facts from photographs and pictures in informational text. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and...
Activity
Quizlet

Quizlet: Types of Details: Flashcards

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
This is a set of interactive flashcards defining words that have to do with details in writing: supporting details, facts, opinion, examples, anecdotes, and statistics.
Activity
Quizlet

Quizlet: Types of Details: Match

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
In this interactive game, students match the words having to do with types of details to their definitions.
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Quizlet

Quizlet: Types of Details: Learn

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
In this interactive focusing on learning types of details, students type in the word to match the definition given.
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Quizlet

Quizlet: Types of Details: Test

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
This interactive quiz features six multiple-choice questions about types of details and their definitions.
Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Sl.4.4: Orally Report on a Topic or Text

For Students 4th Standards
Links to 75 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard SL.4.4: Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an experience in an organized manner, using appropriate facts and relevant, descriptive details to...
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Education.com

Education.com: Sl.4.4 Worksheets: Orally Report on a Topic or Text

For Students 4th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A site with links to 2 worksheets and 6 lessons that can be downloaded and printed for student use while building skills with standard SL.4.4: Report on a topic or text, tell a story, or recount an...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Unit: Reading Comprehension and Structure

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
This unit focuses on reading comprehension and structure. It includes lessons on the main idea and supporting details, theme, sequence, fact and opinion, literary devices, character, text features, inferences, organization of nonfiction,...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Natural Gas: An Energy Resource [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
"Natural Gas: An Energy Resource" is a one page, nonfiction, reading passage about how natural gas is located, drilled for, and sent through pipelines throughout the country to people's homes. It is followed by questions which require...
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Quia

Quia: Reading for Facts

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
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.
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.
Activity
Quizlet

Quizlet: Types of Supporting Details: Definitions: Flashcards

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This interactive set of flashcards focuses on the definitions for types of supporting details such as statements of fact, expert testimony, first-hand accounts, personal experiences, statistics, analogies, etc.
Lesson Plan
Read Works

Read Works:genre Studies: Informational Texts Kindergarten Unit: New Information

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses Giant Pandas by Gail Gibbons to teach learners how to identify facts learned from an informational text. Ideas for direct teaching, guided practice, and independent practice are included....
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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Drawing and Writing Stories

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Online lesson which allows elementary students to us the technique of drawing as a tool to create meaningful writing skills in fiction.
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Quizlet

Quizlet: 3rd Grade: Unit 3 Reading: Main Idea: Test

For Students 3rd Standards
This interactive assessment features 7 multiple-choice questions over terms relating to the main idea and their definitions. These terms include the following: main idea, details, summarize, data, connecting, explicit facts, and...
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Quizlet

Quizlet: 3rd Grade: Unit 3 Reading: Main Idea: Match

For Students 3rd Standards
In this interactive game, students match terms relating to the main idea with their definitions. These terms include the following: main idea, details, summarize, data, connecting, explicit facts, and self-monitoring.