Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Part 2 Reading: Informational Text: Compare Perspectives
Learn about the difference between a firsthand and secondhand accounts in a text on this site.
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Kim's Korner: Patterns of Organization
This resource from Kim's Korner for Teacher Talk defines various patterns of text organization and provides a brief essay example of each pattern.
Read Works
Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Main Idea
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach young scholars to identify main ideas through headings and chapter titles, and then to write appropriate titles of their own. Lessons are based on the...
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Part 2 Reading: Determine Main Idea and Supporting Details
A reference article for students to learn about how to determine the main idea and supporting details from the text. Click on the Model for an example with explanation and then click on Practice for a practice exercise.
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Part 2 Reading: Determine Main Idea and Supporting Details: Model
An example to guide students in choosing the main idea and supporting details. Click Practice for a practice quiz.
TES Global
Blendspace: Cause and Effect
This eleven-part Blendspace is designed to be used while teaching students how to analyze cause and effect. Links include reference sheets, a SMART Notebook Lesson, posters, practice worksheets, and guided practice opportunities.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Writing Process: Organizing
This activity focuses on the organization of your paper including how to write a thesis statement, the elements of an effective paragraph, patterns of organization, transitions, and conclusions. It also provides a video of the Toulmin...
E Reading Worksheets
E Reading Worksheets: Main Idea Worksheets
In this learning module, students will learn how to identify the main ideas in individual pararaphs. Worksheets, PowerPoint lessons, and activities are provided to reinforce the concept of main idea. This module is designed to support...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Organizing Information Quick Guide
Organizing information questions ask you to understand and analyze how a passage works to make an argument. What is the progression of ideas in the passage? or What is the purpose of a specific paragraph?
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Part 2 Reading: Determine Main Ideas and Supporting Details
See how to pick out the main ideas and supporting details on this site. Click on Model at the bottom right.
Curated OER
Mc Graw Hill: Part 2 Reading: Determine Main Ideas and Supporting Details
See an example of how to determine the main ideas and supporting details of a story.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Frame Story
Notes introducing various forms of frame stories, or stories that provide a framework for additional stories within. Examples of different frameworks are provided with classical texts including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel...
Learning Farm
Learning Farm: Word Relationships
Learn how word relationships affect the meaning of text, and then practice this skill.
Learning Farm
Learning Farm: Ccs: Time, Sequence, and Cause/effect
An automated lesson will engage student's learning how to describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text. An introduction to the concept precedes a...
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill Global Education: Implied Main Idea, Exercise 1
Take this five question self-correcting quiz to test your understanding of the implied main idea.
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill Global Education: Implied Main Idea, Exercise 2
Take this five-question self-correcting quiz to test your understanding of the implied main idea.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Using Web Based Bookmarks to Conduct Internet Research
The important thing about this lesson is that it connects literature and science. The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown provides a model for original student poems about a content area topic. Web-based bookmarks guide young scholars...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Exploring Character, Conflict, and Plot in Dramatic Tragedy
Contains plans for four lessons that ask students to change the action in the turning point of a tragedy in order to see the effect on the rest of the play. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links...
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Georgia Perimeter: Choosing and Writing for an Audience
This resource goes extensively into the importance of establishing an audience when writing. It also defines types, how to choose, and how to write for an audience.
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Prezi: Main Idea and Supporting Details
Slideshow investigates how to find the main idea and key details of a story.
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Wisewire: Grades 9 10 Playlist: Analyze How an Author Unfolds an Argument
This is an example of how to analyze how an author unfolds an argument. It provides an example and links to use for practice. RI.9-10.3 author unfolds
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: W.3.4: Produce Writing Appropriate to Task and Purpose
Links to 99 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard W.3.4: With guidance and support from adults, produce writing in which the development and organization are appropriate to task and purpose.
Quizlet
Quizlet: 4th Grade Q. 1: Main Ideas and Supporting Details: Test
This interactive assessment features 9 matching questions and eight multiple-choice questions over 17 terms having to do with main ideas and supporting details including types of writing and the writing process with their definitions.
Quizlet
Quizlet: 4th Grade Q. 1: Main Ideas and Supporting Details: Match
In this interactive game, students match 17 terms having to do with main ideas and supporting details including types of writing and the writing process with their definitions.
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