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Read Works

Read Works: What Can I Buy?

For Teachers 1st Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how money can be used to buy both goods and services. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

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Tom Richey

Slide Share: Finding Themes in Literature

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

A slide show with forty slides with explanations, examples, and information on how to determine the theme of a text. RL.9-10.2 and RL.11-12.2 Analyzing Theme.

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Education Development Center

Tv411: Strategies for Better Reading: Activities 3 of 3

For Students 6th - 8th Standards

Use these eight multiple choice passages to practice summarizing the main idea of a paragraph.

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Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Part 2 Reading: Informational Text: Reasons and Evidence in Text

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards

An article discussing how authors use reasons and evidence to support their ideas in a text. Site includes an example to help students find reasons and evidence.

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Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Main Ideas and Supporting Ideas

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

An explanation and examples of main ideas and supporting details.

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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: The Writing Process: Generate Ideas and Questions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] Learn strategies to help you generate questions and ideas about a topic.

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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Generate Ideas and Questions

For Students 9th Standards

Learn strategies to help you generate questions and ideas about a topic.

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E Reading Worksheets

E Reading Worksheets: Main Idea Worksheets

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

In this learning module, students will learn how to identify the main ideas in individual pararaphs. Worksheets, PowerPoint lessons, and activities are provided to reinforce the concept of main idea. This module is designed to support...

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Sam Houston State University

Texas Center for Academic Excellence: Summarizing Pre Test

For Students 5th - 7th Standards

Check students' prior knowledge and understanding of how to summarize passages and identify main ideas.

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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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Quizlet

Quizlet: Ccisd 4th Grade Main Idea Flashcards

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards

Reading strategy terms (nonfiction) are included in this review exercise. Flashcards are provided for the following words: topic, main idea, supporting details, summarizing, conclusion, point of view, author's perspective, author's...

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ABCya

Ab Cya: Henry and the Sugarbugs

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards

ABCya presents Henry and the Sugar Bugs! A great story about a young boy learning to brush his teeth. This is a great activity to use with an interactive whiteboard.

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Quizlet

Quizlet: R.3 Analyze How and Why Individuals, Events, or Ideas, Develop/interact

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards

Please align to CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.3 Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.

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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Analyze Nonfiction: Central Idea [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards

This graphic organizer will help students analyze nonfiction pieces. Students will use the graphic organizer to guide them as they identify the central idea and supporting details.

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Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Informational Text: Determine Central Ideas and Supporting Details

For Students 5th - 7th Standards

Read a short informational text and determine the main idea and supporting details. Click to check your answers then click on Practice.

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A to Z Teacher Stuff

A to Z Teacher Stuff: Summary, Note Taking, Main Idea & Details

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

A to Z Teacher Stuff offers a instructional activity, submitted by a teacher, using different sized post-it notes to discuss summarizing, note taking, main idea, and details. RI.11-12.2 Central IdeaS/Anal/Summ

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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Teaching: Prewriting and Planning Personal Narratives

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

This lesson focuses on prewriting and planning a personal narrative. The information can be used in all types of writing. It discusses brainstorming ideas, narrowing the focus, and developing the central idea. W.9-10.5 Writing Process,...

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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: W.3.1a: Introduce the Topic or Text They Are Writing About

For Students 3rd Standards

Links to 12 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.3.1a: Introduce the topic or text they are writing about, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure that lists reasons.

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Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: Developing the Central Idea

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

What do you want your audience to remember the most about the topic of your speech? This is will be your central idea and it can be boiled down to one sentence! Follow these guidelines for writing a concise central idea and then practice...

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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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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Sum Summary! [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a narrative or informational text and complete graphic organizers to help them write good summaries of the texts. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Summarizing [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a text and record the main ideas and supporting details on a graphic organizer. Students then complete the organizer by writing a summary of the text. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Projected Paragraphs

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a text and highlight the most important details. Materials are included. [PDF]

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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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