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: 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.
University of Virginia Library
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.
University of Virginia Library
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.
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.
Other
Prezi: Recalling Facts and Details
Slideshow investigates how to identify facts or details in a story.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Nate the Great San Francisco Detective
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is based on the Harcourt Series, Nate the Great. This flipchart will guide your students through the main idea, vocabulary practice, spelling practice, grammar activities, and daily...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Topic & Main Idea
[Free Registration/Login Required] Recognizing the main idea is the key to good comprehension. The main idea is a general idea under which fits all the supporting material of the passage or paragraph. Learn and use three strategies that...
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...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Writing Review
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart students will interactively review the following areas of writing: parts of a paragraph; unity, coherence, and elaboration; and the 4 types of writing.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Clouds
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews various clouds and their characteristics. Included are examples and descriptions of clouds.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Gettysburg Address
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students analyze historical speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King to find rhetorical devices and features that make these speeches memorable.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Main Idea
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a third grade, main idea & details flipchart. It contains an activator, teacher modeling, guided practice, graphic organizers, independent practice, and summarizer. It uses techniques such...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Main Idea and Details
[Free Registration/Login Required] Use this lesson to review main idea and detail. Students can do this whole group and then practice as a center.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Main Idea 5th Grade
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews main idea strategies.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Skimming for Main Ideas
This lesson explains how to scan a question for the main idea.
Soft Schools
Soft Schools: What's the Main Idea? Quiz
This main idea quiz begins with a page explaining how to find the main idea followed by the self-scoring quiz. Students read short passages and select the main idea. A score sheet is presented at the end of the quiz.
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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.
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.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Main Idea Lesson
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on the determining the main idea and details.