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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Cause and Effect

For Students 1st - 4th Standards
A ten-part learning module on cause and effect relationships. Lessons include links images, graphic organizers, videos, and a worksheet.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Main Idea

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
A five-part learning module with links to videos and images about finding the main idea of a text.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Reading Comprehension Visualizing

For Students 1st - 8th Standards
A five-part learning module with links to images and web sites to help student improve reading comprehension by visualizing.
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Other

Worksheet Plus: Give and Get

For Students 2nd Standards
Read a short literary text called "Give and Get," and then choose the correct answer for comprehension questions at the end of the selection.
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PPT
Other

Prezi: Bme Beginning Middle End

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
Become a better reader by learning how to identify the beginning, middle, and the end of a story. Discover what clue words will help with the identification.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Answering Questions in Complete Sentences

For Teachers 1st - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will create visual images to comprehend/remember what they have read. Students will answer comprehension questions in complete sentences.
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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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Whiteboard
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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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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Unit Plan
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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Graphic
Scholastic

Scholastic: Informational Text: Reading Response: Kwl Chart [Pdf]

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
This graphic organizer can be used with students when they read informational text. Students will write what they already know about the topic and what they want to know about the topic by reading. After reading, students will record...
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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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Interactive
Quizlet

Quizlet: Plot 2nd Grade Learn

For Students 2nd Standards
Practice your knowledge of twenty plot terms by typing the term for each definition.
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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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Activity
English Worksheets Land

English Worksheets Land: Using Illustrations and Details for Key Ideas Worksheet

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
The nature of the interactions between the author and the illustrator are vital to the expression provided by that drawing. The following worksheets focus on using pictures to describe key ideas in an informational text.
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Activity
Big Learners

Biglearners.com: ccss.ela literacy.ri.1.8 : First Grade English Language Arts

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Here is a collection of our common core aligned worksheets for core standard RI.1.8. 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 free...
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

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

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a text and then complete a graphic organizer to help them write a summary. Materials are included.
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Activity
Education.com

Education.com: Sl.1.4 Worksheets

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets to reinforce the common core standard of describing people, places, things, and events with relevant details, expressing ideas and feelings clearly.
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Activity
Education.com

Education.com: Sl.1.5 Worksheets

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets to reinforce the common core standard of adding drawings or other visual displays to descriptions when appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.
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Activity
Big Learners

Biglearners.com: ccss.ela literacy.l.1.1.h : First Grade English Language Arts

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Here is a collection of our common core aligned worksheets for core standard L.1.1.H. 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...
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Activity
Education.com

Education.com: Ri.2.7 Worksheets

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] These worksheets can help students practice the Common Core State Standards skill of explaining how specific images (e.g., a diagram showing how a machine works) contribute to and clarify a text.
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Activity
Education.com

Education.com: Rl.2.7 Worksheets

For Teachers 1st - 3rd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Choose from a variety of worksheets to help students practice the Common Core Standard of using information gained from the illustrations and words in a print or digital text to demonstrate...
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Article
Other

The Digital Scoop: Drawing and Writing Fun With Abc Ya Story Maker

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This article describes how to use the Story Maker app on the ABCYa website. A sample of student writing about making a snowman is provided.