Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Unit: Reading Comprehension and Structure
This unit focuses on reading comprehension and structure. It includes lessons on the main idea and supporting details, theme, sequence, fact and opinion, literary devices, character, text features, inferences, organization of nonfiction,...
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Identifying the Main Idea
This resource defines main ideas and is an interactive way to assess a student's ability to correctly find main ideas from paragraphs.
TES Global
Blendspace: Text Structures
A thirty-part learning module on text structures including description, sequence, problem and solution, compare and contrast, and cause and effect. Lessons include links to pictures, story text, informational text, videos, charts,...
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
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: Reading Skills Inferencing
A twelve-part learning module with links to texts, images, and videos with information and examples of how to make inferences.
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: 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: Summarizing a Text
Slideshow provides an explanation of summarizing and describes how to make a good one.
Other
Prezi: Recalling Facts and Details
Slideshow investigates how to identify facts or details in a story.
Other
Prezi: Main Idea and Supporting Details
Learning how to determine what is the main idea and what are the details in a story helps you become a better reader.
Other
Landmark School Outreach: Finding the Main Idea
This reading strategy resource provides steps for identifying the main idea of an informational text. Example informational text paragraphs are provided, along with detailed explanations for the processes used in identifying the main...
Other
Reference: What Is the Main Idea of a Story
This reference page defines the main idea of a story and explains how it differs from topics of a story.
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Main Idea and Supporting Details
This slideshow focuses on the main idea and supporting details including definitions and examples. A more comprehensive slideshow follows the first.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Procedural Text: Recipe
A teacher created lesson plan to help students conquer how to make connections between directions in an effort to create something. This activity will have students sharing recipes and understanding why recipes should be followed in...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Main Idea 5th Grade
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews main idea strategies.
Other
Internet4classrooms:3rd Grade Skills Builder: Main Idea
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.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Graphic Organizer Spider Graphic
[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.
Quia
Quia: Reading: Finding the Main Idea
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.
Quizlet
Quizlet: 5th Grade Text Structures: Match
In this interactive game, students match the terms for the types of text structure to the correct descriptions.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Types of Details: Test
This interactive quiz features six multiple-choice questions about types of details and their definitions.