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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...
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Distinguishing Main Ideas and Supporting Details
This downloadable slideshow focuses on main ideas and supporting details including definitions, identification, and practicing with paragraphs. RI.9-10.2 central idea/summary
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.
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: Identifying Key Question Words and Phrases
This lesson explains how to identify key question words and phrases. This tutorial lesson shares a short slideshow with the lesson's content.
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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.
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Seed Discussion
A Seed Discussion is a two-part strategy used to teach students how to engage in discussions about assigned readings. In the first part, students read selected text and identify "seeds" or key concepts of a passage which may need...
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Web Lesson: Get the Idea
Read through a lesson about main ideas and supporting details to understand their importance. Practice choosing the main idea of three nonfiction paragraphs. Features practice activities to enhance learning.
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: 3rd Grade: Unit 3 Reading: Main Idea: Test
This interactive assessment features 4 multiple-choice and 3 true/false questions relating to the main idea and their definitions. These terms include the following: main idea, details, summarize, data, connecting, explicit facts, and...
Quizlet
Quizlet: 3rd Grade: Unit 3 Reading: Main Idea: Test
This interactive assessment features 7 multiple-choice questions over terms relating to the main idea and their definitions. These terms include the following: main idea, details, summarize, data, connecting, explicit facts, and...
Quizlet
Quizlet: 3rd Grade: Unit 3 Reading: Main Idea: Match
In this interactive game, students match terms relating to the main idea with their definitions. These terms include the following: main idea, details, summarize, data, connecting, explicit facts, and self-monitoring.
Quizlet
Quizlet: 3rd Grade: Unit 3 Reading: Main Idea: Flashcards
This set of interactive flashcards focuses on terms relating to the main idea and their definitions. These terms include the following: main idea, details, summarize, data, connecting, explicit facts, and self-monitoring.
Quizlet
Quizlet: 2nd Grade: Unit 2 Reading: Main Idea: Test
This interactive assessment features 6 matching and 5 multiple-choice questions over terms relating to the main idea and their definitions. These terms include the following: topic, topic sentence, main idea, detail, supporting details,...
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: Types of Supporting Details: Definitions: Match
In this interactive game, student match terms describing types of supporting details to their definitions.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Types of Supporting Details: Definitions: Learn
This interactive helps students learn the types of supporting details by having them type in the terms that fit the definitions.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Types of Supporting Details: Definitions: Flashcards
This interactive set of flashcards focuses on the definitions for types of supporting details such as statements of fact, expert testimony, first-hand accounts, personal experiences, statistics, analogies, etc.
Quizlet
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.
Quizlet
Quizlet: Types of Details: Learn
In this interactive focusing on learning types of details, students type in the word to match the definition given.
Quizlet
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.