Teachnology
Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Clouds of Main Ideas
In this lesson for 3rd to 5th grade, after reading a story, student write the main idea on a cloud and clip it to a clothesline or bulletin board, and other students can write supporting details on raindrops and clip them to the correct...
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Main Idea Structure and Valentine's Day Worksheet
Written exercises related to identifying the main ideas and details are provided on this module. Students will enjoy learning about Valentine's Day in these text structure exercises.
ABCya
Ab Cya: Marvin & Sweetie: Storybook
This resource presents its third children's storybook for the classroom. Marvin and Sweetie, is an original work by Michelle Tocci. The story is about a frog who learns an important life lesson from a friendly bird.
Other
Prezi: Main Idea and Supporting Details
Defines and provides examples of the main idea of a paragraph and also explores the meaning of key details.
Other
Prezi: Main Idea and Supporting Details
Slideshow investigates how to find the main idea and key details of a story.
Other
I Pathways: Language Arts: Stated Versus Implied
Learn about the difference between a stated main idea and an implied main idea. Then, practice finding the stated and implied main ideas in two short texts.
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Main Idea and Supporting Details
A slide show with seventeen slides teaching about main ideas and supporting details within a text.
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Main Idea & Supporting Detail
Ten slides explaining how to identify main ideas and details within a text.
Read Works
Read Works: Time for Change
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about $1 coins featuring different Presidents being minted in 2007. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Catch the Breeze
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about windmills using wind power as a source of electricity. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Marathon Kids
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a program called Marathon Kids that is designed to teach children to be physically active. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: City of Broken Records
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the people of Dubai who wanted their city to be famous for breaking the most world records. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Mammoth Fossil Found
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a man who found the fossil of a wooly mammoth. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Device May Help Blind People See
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a new device that can give sight to people blinded because of retinal damage. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Lesson Plan: Microbes on My Mind
A four-day sixth-grade science activity on the topic of microbes. Students learn information about microbes and their functions through personal observation and several non-fiction texts, some of which are provided.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Supporting Details
A six-slide presentation explaining the importance of using supporting details and describing different types of details that can be used to support an idea.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Supporting Details: Facts and Statistics
This lesson discusses how statistics can be used as supporting details. This tutorial shares a short audio lesson [05:16] and supplemental notes with the lesson's content.
Read Works
Read Works: Main Idea Kindergarten Unit: What the Book Is Mainly About
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses Amazing Tigers! by Sarah L. Thomson and Ladybugs by Monica Hughes to teach students to use titles, pictures, and text to identify the main idea of an informational text. Ideas for direct...
Other
Scribd.: Kindergarten Reading Comprehension Lesson Plan: Main Idea and Details
A five-day lesson plan to teach students how to find the main idea of a story and generate a title, identify facts and details from a story, and differentiate between main idea and supporting details.
Education Development Center
Education Development Center: Tv411: Parts of a Newspaper
Students click through a lesson about the parts of a newspaper and answer questions about the types of articles found in each section, headlines, and captions that would go with photographs. Links to related videos are also provided.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Pioneer Families [Pdf]
"Pioneer Families" is a one page, nonfiction, reading passage about pioneers who traveled west in wagon trains, the hardships they faced, and how they worked together to build communities. It is followed by questions which require...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: The Captain's Job [Pdf]
"The Captain's Job" is a one page, nonfiction, reading passage about a captain safely landing his plane in the Hudson River after birds had flown into the engines causing them to stop. It is followed by questions which require students...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: The First Flyers [Pdf]
"The First Flyers" is a one page, nonfiction, reading passage about the Wright brothers and their obsession with flying. It is followed by questions which require students to provide evidence from the story; it includes: determining main...
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Scholastic
Scholastic: Informational Text: Reading Response: Main Ideas & Details [Pdf]
This graphic organizer can be used with students when they read informational text. Students will write the main idea in a central oval and then write four details that support the main idea of this reproducible graphic organizer.