Quia
Quia: Compare and Contrast Stories
This interactive assessment engages students in comparing and contrasting two literary text passages. Students will read two short passages and answer five questions that require students to compare and contrast the content of each story.
Quia
Quia: Main Ideas!
Read a short text and determine the main idea in this Battleship style learning game.
Quia
Quia: 3rd Grade Main Idea
Read a short text and then choose the correct main idea in this three-question quiz.
Other
Cyberwriter: Descriptive Writing
Resource gives writing activities leveled K-1st grade, 2nd & 3rd grades and 4th through 8th grades.
Other
Reading Quest: Strategies for Reading Comprehension: Summarizing
Teach students to summarize nonfiction text with these lesson plans. Includes worksheets and activities that can be downloaded and 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.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Main Idea and Details
The interactive lesson is a review of main idea and supporting details.
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.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Compare and Contrast Rubric
Students and teachers can assess their own writing with this compare and contrast rubric.
TES Global
Blendspace: Main Idea Activities
A learning module that includes six links to videos, images, graphic organizers, and websites that reinforce the reading skill of finding the main idea.
TES Global
Blendspace: Main Idea
A learning module that includes six links to videos, images, and websites that reinforce the reading skill of finding the main idea.
TES Global
Blendspace: Main Idea and Supporting Details 3.5 Ij, 3.6gh
A twelve-part learning module with links to images, videos, and a website on identifying the main idea and supporting details within a text.
TES Global
Blendspace: Main Idea and Supporting Details
An eight-part learning module with links to images, texts, videos, slides, and a quiz on identifying the main idea and supporting details within a text.
TES Global
Blendspace: Main Idea
A five-part learning module with links to videos and images about finding the main idea of a text.
TES Global
Blendspace: Informational Text
A twelve-part learning module with links to images, texts, slides, and charts that teach skills to build reading comprehension with informational texts.
TES Global
Blendspace: Main Idea
A learning module with six links to images and videos on finding the main idea of a text.
TES Global
Blendspace: Main Idea
Six links to pictures, videos, text, and web sites about how to identify the main idea of a text.
TES Global
Blendspace: Nonfiction 2014 2015
A learning module with twenty-one links to images, websites, texts, slideshows, and videos about nonfiction and informational text reading skills.
TES Global
Blendspace: What Is the Main Idea and Supporting Details?
A learning module with thirty links to texts, slide shows, videos, and images that teach about finding the main idea and supporting details in a written passage.
TES Global
Blendspace: Investigating Main Idea
An eleven-part learning module with links to images, videos, websites, slides, and a quiz about finding the main idea.
Other
Prezi: Finding the Main Idea in 2nd Grade
By watching this slideshow, students will learn how to find the main idea in a paragraph and the supporting details. It uses the analogy of the layers of a hamburger deluxe.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Nonfiction Comprehension: Making Personal and Textual Connections
This is a lesson plan to help elementary students connect to nonfiction text as they read.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Reading in the Content Area
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart integrates the reading skill of compare and contrast while learning about the solar system.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Alike? Different? Compare and Contrast
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart contains numerous interactive activities. The flipchart introduces students to the concept of comparison and contrast, how it relates to real life, how it is used by authors, and signal...