Topic Main Idea and Details Teaching Resources :: 409

Quizlet

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

For Students 2nd Standards

This interactive assessment features 6 matching and 5 multiple-choice questions over terms relating to the main idea and their definitions. These terms include the following: topic, topic sentence, main idea, detail, supporting details,...

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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.

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Savvas Learning

Pearson Longman: Main Points, Support Points, and Specific Details

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

Part of the Pearson Longman series entitled "Sentence Resources for Writers", this site assesses the high school student's ability to identify main points and develop specific details and support points. Includes ten multiple choice and...

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Detail Delight [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a text use a graphic organizer to record the topic and supporting details. Materials are included.

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Smekens Educational Solutions: Expose K 2 Readers to Annotation Strategies

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

This article discusses how to begin teaching students in K-2 to record their ideas about text using highlighters, colored pens, large graphic organizers, and sticky notes. Students can retell a story with a storyboard, use a web to find...

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Exploration [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards

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

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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Reversing the Chicago River [Pdf]

For Teachers 5th

"Reversing the Chicago River" is a one page, nonfiction passage about how the leaders of Chicago reversed the polluted Chicago River so that it emptied into the Mississippi River instead of the lake. It is followed by questions which...

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CPALMS

Cpalms: What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, learners will use What Do You Do With A Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page to identify the main topic and key details using the illustrations and text. Students will work to...

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Resource Room: What's the Big Idea?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

This exercise can be used to help students develop understanding of main idea and supporting details. Students are given a list of words to analyze, decide the theme and write a common subject that defines the group.

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Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Web Lesson: Get the Idea

For Students 1st - 4th Standards

Read through a lesson about main ideas and supporting details to understand their importance. Practice choosing the main idea of three nonfiction paragraphs. Features practice activities to enhance learning.

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Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Identify the Main Topic and Key Details

For Students 1st - 2nd Standards

This is a practice exercise to help teach how to find the main topic of a passage by looking at key details. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.2

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CPALMS

Cpalms: Buzzing Tails

For Students K - 1st Standards

This video tutorial features the character named Bobby who will assist students as they search for key details in a nonfiction text.

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Tom Richey

Slide Share: Distinguishing Main Ideas and Supporting Details

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This downloadable slideshow focuses on main ideas and supporting details including definitions, identification, and practicing with paragraphs. RI.9-10.2 central idea/summary

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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Graphic Organizer Spider Graphic

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

[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.

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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 learners read a text and complete a graphic organizer to identify the topic and supporting details or facts. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Classic Classifying

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a text and write main ideas and supporting details in boxes on a graphic organizer. Materials are included. [PDF]

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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Digging Up Details on Worms: Using Science in an Inquiry Study

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan based on a study unit of earthworms, using the inquiry model to integrate scientific processes with literacy practices. Instruction plans, related resources, and standards are included.

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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.

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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.

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Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Deploying Supporting Materials

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This lesson focuses on supporting materials including types of supporting materials and how to effectively incorporate them into your presentation. W.9-10.2b Strong Support, W.11-12.2b Topic/support/aud

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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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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Learning Lab: Wwii on the Home Front: Civic Responsibility

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

Smithsonian Education presents a lesson covering the WWII's propaganda program which enforced the ideals of Civic Responsibility. Provides eight pages of poster examples, detailed background over the time period, and the goals of the...

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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Themes in Literary Texts (English 6 Reading)

For Students 5th - 7th Standards

Learn how to infer the implicit theme in a work of fiction, distinguish theme from topic, and make complex inferences using textual evidence.

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