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Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Discussion Guide: Ox Cart Man

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Scholastic presents this discussion guide of "Ox-Cart Man" by Donald Hall. The guide includes discussion questions, extension activities, and more.
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Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Discussion Guide: School's Out

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Scholastic presents this discussion guide of "School's Out" by Johanna Hurwitz. The guide includes discussion questions, extension activities, and more.
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Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Discussion Guide: Each Peach Pear Plum

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Scholastic presents this discussion guide of "Each Peach Pear Plum" by Allan Ahlberg. The guide includes discussion questions, extension activities, and more.
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Unit Plan
Other

Internet4classrooms:3rd Grade Skills Builder: Main Idea

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
This interactive Language Arts skill-building site provides links to interactive activities that focus on finding the main idea of a reading selection. Online lessons, games and quizzes challenges students understanding of main idea.
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Activity
Other

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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Quia

Quia: Reading: Finding the Main Idea

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Students read forty short texts and choose the main idea of each text. Correct answers are provided for any missed, and the score is tallied along the way.
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Unknown Type
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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Activity
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.
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Activity
Quizlet

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

For Students 3rd Standards
This set of interactive flashcards focuses on terms relating to the main idea and their definitions. These terms include the following: main idea, details, summarize, data, connecting, explicit facts, and self-monitoring.
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Unknown Type
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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Activity
Quizlet

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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Unknown Type
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.
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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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Activity
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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Assessment
Quizlet

Quizlet: 4th Grade Q. 1: Main Ideas and Supporting Details: Test

For Students 4th Standards
This interactive assessment features 9 matching questions and eight multiple-choice questions over 17 terms having to do with main ideas and supporting details including types of writing and the writing process with their definitions.
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Activity
Quizlet

Quizlet: 4th Grade Q. 1: Main Ideas and Supporting Details: Match

For Students 4th Standards
In this interactive game, students match 17 terms having to do with main ideas and supporting details including types of writing and the writing process with their definitions.
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Activity
Quizlet

Quizlet: 4th Grade Q. 1: Main Ideas and Supporting Details: Flashcards

For Students 4th Standards
This set of interactive flashcards focuses on 17 terms having to do with main ideas and supporting details including types of writing and the writing process.
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Activity
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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Interactive
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Literature: Analyzing Theme

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Article explains how to find the theme in a piece of literature by asking yourself a series of questions as you read. RL.9-10.1 Analyzing Theme. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.2
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Graphic
Other

Mrs. Warner's Learning: Main Ideas and Details: What Are They?

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
Learn about the main idea and the details that support it by viewing the chart.