Washington Irving's description of Ichabod Crane provides young readers with an opportunity to demonstrate their ability to identify the main idea of a passage.

Concepts

reading comprehension strategies, main ideas

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• The worksheet can be used to model how to determine the main idea of a paragraph, as guided comprehension practice, or as an assessment of understanding

Classroom Considerations

• The worksheet is the fifteenth in a series of 27 reading comprehension exercises

Pros

• An answer sheet is included

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.6.2 RL.7.1 RL.8.1