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Prism: Centrifugal Force (Latin for "Center Feeling") in the Ukraine
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read Max Fisher's article about centrifugal force in the Ukraine, and highlight evidence to support his claim.
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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.
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Class Flow: Using Specific Detail
[Free Registration/Login Required] This elementary flipchart promotes creative writing using supportive details. Students will explore examples from literature and consider ways to improve their writing.
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Class Flow: Writing Showing Feelings
[Free Registration/Login Required] This elementary flipchart shows how writers express feelings. Instead of telling the reader, they show the reader through descriptive writing.
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Sophia: Common Errors in Body Paragraphs
This lesson goes over common issues in body paragraphs.
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Sophia: Supporting Details: Anecdotes
Anecdotes are literary tools used to pique interest and engage readers. Used to evoke emotion, anecdotes are best used in the introduction or conclusion. This tutorial focuses on how to use anecdotes appropriately and effectively to make...
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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.
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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.
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Quizlet: Types of Supporting Details Definitions Test
Choose the correct type of supporting detail for each definition in this eight-question multiple choice quiz.
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Quizlet: Types of Supporting Details Test
Choose the correct type of supporting detail for each definition in this eight-question multiple choice quiz.
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Quizlet: Types of Supporting Details Match
Match each type of supporting detail to its definition as you race against the clock in this matching game.
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Quizlet: Types of Supporting Details Learn
Test your knowledge of types of supporting details by typing the type of detail under each definition.
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Quizlet: Types of Supporting Details Flashcards
Review different types of supporting details and their definitions using these online flashcards.
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Quizlet: Types of Details: Test
This interactive quiz features six multiple-choice questions about types of details and their definitions.
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Quizlet: Types of Details: Match
In this interactive game, students match the words having to do with types of details to their definitions.
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Quizlet: Types of Details: Learn
In this interactive focusing on learning types of details, students type in the word to match the definition given.
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Quizlet: Types of Details: Flashcards
This is a set of interactive flashcards defining words that have to do with details in writing: supporting details, facts, opinion, examples, anecdotes, and statistics.
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Quizlet: Flashcards 8th Grade Evidence/inference
This set of interactive flashcards focuses on terms having to do with evidence and inference-related definitions. These terms include the following: evidence, analysis, inferences, explicit, and imply.
W. W. Norton
W.w. Norton & Company: Elements of the Essay: Evidence
An explanation of how to incorporate evidence into an essay in order to provide support for the thesis.
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Mrs. Warner's Learning: Main Ideas and Details: What Are They?
Learn about the main idea and the details that support it by viewing the chart.