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[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from four quality lesson plans to help students practice the Common Core Standard of adding drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail.
![Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Question Creation [Pdf] Lesson Plan](https://content.lessonplanet.com/knovation/original/509078-f113fac8eaf33259ad1320892a4af82b.jpg?1661787005 "Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Question Creation [Pdf] Lesson Plan")
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: Question Creation [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students read a text and create questions using the words provided on word cards. Materials are included.
![Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: What Do You Know? [Pdf] Lesson Plan](https://content.lessonplanet.com/knovation/original/509086-53a24983190dae0583572c16a6d92618.jpg?1661786994 "Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: What Do You Know? [Pdf] Lesson Plan")
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Monitor for Understanding: What Do You Know? [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students browse a text and complete graphic organizers to help them activate prior knowledge. Materials are included.
![Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Summarizing [Pdf] Lesson Plan](https://content.lessonplanet.com/knovation/original/509106-80e78b7399a2808435954652f1b4d966.jpg?1661786965 "Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Summarizing [Pdf] Lesson Plan")
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Summarizing [Pdf]
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.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Main Idea Mania
A lesson plan in which students read a text and record the main ideas and supporting details on one of the graphic organizers provided. Materials are included. [PDF]
![Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Detail Delight [Pdf] Lesson Plan](https://content.lessonplanet.com/knovation/original/509111-e5c1656174893ec0b13796fa102b33a6.jpg?1661786956 "Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Detail Delight [Pdf] Lesson Plan")
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Detail Delight [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which learners read a text use a graphic organizer to record the topic and supporting details. Materials are included.
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Text Feature Find
A lesson plan in which students look through a book to find various text features including: a table of contents, sequence and format, charts/graphs/maps, diagrams/graphics/illustrations, print variations, an index, and a glossary....
![Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Exploration [Pdf] Lesson Plan](https://content.lessonplanet.com/knovation/original/509114-1621b87800788ad03f8f6464b347c698.jpg?1661786951 "Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Exploration [Pdf] Lesson Plan")
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Exploration [Pdf]
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.
![Florida Center for Reading Research: Keys to the Main Idea [Pdf] Lesson Plan](https://content.lessonplanet.com/knovation/original/509117-6a7deb78ba7b4449647dd19113c6a0f8.jpg?1661786946 "Florida Center for Reading Research: Keys to the Main Idea [Pdf] Lesson Plan")
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Keys to the Main Idea [Pdf]
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.
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Story Elements Retelling
In this lesson plan, learners will learn to retell a story using story elements to improve their comprehension of the story. The students will actively listen to a story and complete a graphic organizer to share and discuss with a partner.
Big Learners
Biglearners.com: ccss.ela literacy.l.2.1.f : Second Grade English Language Arts
Here is a collection of our common core aligned worksheets for core standard L.2.1.F. A brief description of the worksheets is on each of the worksheet widgets. Click on the images to view, download, or print them. All worksheets are...
CPALMS
Cpalms: lafs.k.ri.1.3
Choose from a variety of lesson plans, resources, center activities, and a formative assessment that meets the standard of describing the connection between two individuals, events, ideas, or pieces of information in a text.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Points of Informational Text Main Idea and Details
This lesson plan 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...
Starfall
Starfall: Let's Be Pals
This interactive focuses on short sentences that include picture words.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Get the Idea
In this reading comprehension exercise, young readers will learn to identify main ideas in paragraphs. Includes multiple choice options with hints.
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Describe Characters
This learning module focuses on reading for key ideas and details including main characters, problems, and solutions. It provides a detailed example with an explanation and a practice paragraph with questions.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Get the Idea
Learn about and practice finding the main idea in short reading passages.
Quia
Quia: 3rd Grade Main Idea
This short interactive activity assesses students' ability to identify main idea. Students will read three short passages and identify the main idea of each.
Other
Crossroads Education: Context Clues Chart
A student's quick-reference guide to using context clues while reading.
Education Place
Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: 5 Ws Chart [Pdf]
This site from Houghton Mifflin Company provides a simple, reproducible chart to help students gather details of Who, What, When, Where, and Why. This could be used as a reading comprehension tool, or as prewriting for expository writing.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: 5 W's Diagrams
Enchanted Learning provides several examples of graphic organizers that can be used for gathering Who, What, Where, When, and Why information, either for reading comprehension or prewriting. These template suggestions can only be printed...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Teaching With Nonfiction: Teach Text Features
A brief lesson plan, this site offers an example of non-fiction text and a graphic organizer to help orient students to the features they need to use when reading for information.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Informational Text: Reading Response: Compare and Contrast
A brief graphic organizer to help students visualize the similarities and differences in a piece of informational text.
abcteach
Abcteach: Picture Sentences
[Free Registration/Login Required] Reproducible worksheets with colorful pictures that help early readers to practice their comprehension by choosing the correct sentence.