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Prezi: Main Idea and Supporting Details

For Students 7th - 8th Standards

Defines and provides examples of the main idea of a paragraph and also explores the meaning of key details.

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Read Works

Read Works: Main Idea Kindergarten Unit: What the Book Is Mainly About

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses Amazing Tigers! by Sarah L. Thomson and Ladybugs by Monica Hughes to teach students to use titles, pictures, and text to identify the main idea of an informational text. Ideas for direct...

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Better Lesson: Points of Informational Text Main Idea and Details

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

This lesson uses the book Explorers of North America - A True Book by Brendan January to teach students how to identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph informational text and specific paragraphs within the text. Students are guided...

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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Synthesize Ideas and Details in Several Texts (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

In this lesson, you will practice making connections between ideas on the same topic. Some of the ideas will differ from each other, so we will learn how to identify and synthesize important details and draw conclusions. W.9-10.7 Research

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Scholastic: Informational Text: Reading Response: Main Ideas & Details [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

This graphic organizer can be used with students when they read informational text. Students will write the main idea in a central oval and then write four details that support the main idea of this reproducible graphic organizer.

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Quizlet

Quizlet: Main Idea, Main Idea Test

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards

Terms associated with main idea are included on this assessment. This test assesses the following text feature terms: central idea, main idea, details, supporting details, summarizing, interesting detail, conclusion, topic, subject, and...

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Quizlet: Ccisd 4th Grade Main Idea Match

For Students 4th - 8th Standards

Reading comprehension terms (nonfiction) are included in this review "Match" game. Questions are provided for the following words: main idea, summarizing, point of view, summarizing, topic, support, conclusion, details, author's purpose,...

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Read Works: Main Idea 1st Grade Unit

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students learn to use titles and supporting details in both fiction and non-fiction texts in order to identify the main idea of the book in this three-lesson unit. The lessons utilize the books Animal...

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Read Works: Main Idea Kindergarten Unit: Using Details to Create a Title

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses Amazing Gorillas! by Sarah L. Thomson and In the Wild: Leopards by Stephanie St. Pierreto to teach students how to use textual details to create a title for informational text. Ideas for...

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

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards

This lesson is a final step towards supporting young scholars 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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Class Flow: Topic & Main Idea

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

[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...

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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Main Idea Lesson

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on the determining the main idea and details.

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Quizlet

Quizlet: Main Idea, Main Idea Flashcards

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards

Terms related to main idea are included in this review exercise. Interactive vocabulary flashcards are provided for the following words: main idea, central idea, interesting detail, subject, topic, support, supporting detail, theme, and...

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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What Is the Main Idea?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

During this lesson students begin to identify the main idea of a story they read or hear. Students use graphic organizers to discover the main idea of The Carrot Seed, by Ruth Krauss, and Marsupial Sue, by John Lithgow.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Keys to the Main Idea [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a text a complete a graphic organizer to identify the main ideas and supporting details. Materials are included.

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Tom Richey

Slide Share: Identifying Topics, Main Ideas, and Supporting Details

For Students 8th Standards

A slide show with thirty-nine slides explaining and giving examples of topics, main ideas and supporting details within an informational text.

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Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Main Idea

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to identify main ideas through headings and chapter titles, and then to write appropriate titles of their own. Lessons are based on the books...

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Quizlet: 2nd Grade Unit 2 Reading: Main Idea: Flashcards

For Students 2nd Standards

This interactive set of flashcards, helps students learn the terms and definitions associated with the main idea. These terms include the following: topic, topic sentence, main idea, supporting details, summary, summarize, retell,...

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Mt. San Antonio College: Finding the Main Idea

For Students 5th - 8th Standards

This resource provides practice for students in locating where a main idea sentences is located in an informational paragraph. Guided questions are provided for each practice passage.

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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Supporting Details

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

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...

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Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Lessons and Activities on Main Ideas for First Grade

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards

This site offers links to several lesson plans for teaching main ideas to first and second graders; it also provides and explains some activities for teaching the main idea to first graders.

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TES Global

Blendspace: Main Idea

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards

A five-part learning module with links to videos and images about finding the main idea of a text.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Main Idea [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards

A lesson plan in which young scholars read a text and then read it again highlighting the key words and phrases that are important for understanding the text. Materials are included.

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Quizlet

Quizlet: 2nd Grade: Unit 2 Reading: Main Idea: Match

For Students K - 1st Standards

In this interactive learning game, students match terms relating to the main idea with their definitions. These terms include the following: topic, topic sentence, main idea, detail, supporting details, summary, summarize, retell, infer,...

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