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.
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Class Flow: Main Idea Lesson
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on the determining the main idea and details.
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Resource Room: What's the Big Idea?
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.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Dinner at Aunt Connie's
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is to go along with the story Dinner at Aunt Connie's from the Scholastic Literacy Place grade 4 reading series. The pages contain vocabulary work as well as hit the key skills of main...
TES Global
Blendspace: The Hero's Journey
An eighteen-part learning module with links to videos, images, and charts to use while learning about the theme of a hero's journey in a literary text.
Quizlet
Quizlet: 2nd Grade Unit 2 Reading: Main Idea: Flashcards
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,...
Quizlet
Quizlet: Theme (Implicit vs. Explicit) Test
This is an interactive, six-question, multiple-choice quiz over the terms connected to Theme.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Theme (Implicit vs. Explicit): Match
In this interactive, students match the terms related to theme with their definitions.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Theme (Implicit vs. Explicit) Flashcards
This interactive flashcard activity focuses on the terms implicit and explicit in reference to themes, including definitions and formulas.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Literature: Analyzing Theme
Article explains how to find the theme in a piece of literature by asking yourself a series of questions as you read. RL.9-10.1 Analyzing Theme. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.2
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Finding the Main Idea & Inferences
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart will help student find the main idea in writing as well as make inferences while reading. There are 2 web quests embedded that has numerous exercises with sound. There is an Activote...
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Thoughtful Learning: ccss.ela literacy.rl.8.9
Use the following resources to teach students how to analyze a modern work of fiction that draws on themes, patterns of events, or character types from myths, traditional stories, or religious works such as the Bible, including...