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Handout
Curated OER

Mc Graw Hill: Part 2 Reading: Informational Text: How Reasons Support Key Points

For Students 1st - 5th Standards
Get an example of how to identify an author's main idea in a text on this site. Also, learn how to recognize supporting ideas to main ideas presented in a text. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.2
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Lesson Plan
CPALMS

Cpalms: It's All in the Details

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Using this comprehensive lesson plan, learners will use a web graphic organizer to learn to record the main idea and details learned from informational text read aloud to them.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Topic & Main Idea

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[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...
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Main Idea and Details Rags to Riches

For Students 4th Standards
Read a short text and then choose its main idea in this Rags to Riches style game.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Main Idea Lesson

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on the determining the main idea and details.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Main Idea

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[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...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Main Idea 5th Grade

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews main idea strategies.
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Unit Plan
Other

Internet4classrooms:3rd Grade Skills Builder: Main Idea

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
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.
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Lesson Plan
Love To Know Media

Your Dictionary: Lessons and Activities on Main Ideas for First Grade

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
This site offers links to several lesson plans for teaching main ideas to first and second graders; it also provides and explains some activities for teaching the main idea to first graders.
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Detail Delight [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards
A lesson plan in which young scholars read a text use a graphic organizer to record the topic and supporting details. Materials are included.
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PPT
Tom Richey

Slide Share: Main Idea and Supporting Details

For Students 4th - 7th Standards
This slideshow focuses on the main idea and supporting details including definitions and examples. A more comprehensive slideshow follows the first.
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Professional Doc
Other

Landmark School Outreach: Finding the Main Idea

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Main Idea Activities

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
A learning module that includes six links to videos, images, graphic organizers, and websites that reinforce the reading skill of finding the main idea.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Main Idea

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
A five-part learning module with links to videos and images about finding the main idea of a text.
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Quia

Quia: Crct Practice: Main Idea

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
An interactive quiz with seven multiple choice questions over four short reading passages. Questions focus on identifying the main ideas and supporting details and choosing an appropriate summary. When finished, students can submit...
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Points of Informational Text Main Idea and Details

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This lesson uses the book Explorers of North America - A True Book by Brendan January to teach students how to identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph informational text and specific paragraphs within the text. Students are guided...
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Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Identifying Main Ideas & Details

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
This lesson operates on the Scaffold Instructional of Release model (I do, we do, you do). Students will use the main idea and supporting details to expand understanding of a variety of texts.
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PPT
Tom Richey

Slide Share: Skill Main Idea and Details

For Students 7th Standards
A slide show with fourteen slides with information and examples on finding the main ideas and supporting details in an informational text.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Synthesize Ideas and Details in Several Texts (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
You will learn how to synthesize ideas and details in texts and support the connections with textual evidence.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Synthesize Ideas and Details in Several Texts (English I Reading)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this lesson, you will practice making connections between ideas on the same topic. Some of the ideas will differ from each other, so we will learn how to identify and synthesize important details and draw conclusions. W.9-10.7 Research
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Lesson Plan
Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Main Idea [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
A lesson plan in which students read a text and then read it again highlighting the key words and phrases that are important for understanding the text. Materials are included.
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Quizlet

Quizlet: 2nd Grade: Unit 2 Reading: Main Idea: Test

For Students 2nd Standards
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,...
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Activity
Quizlet

Quizlet: 2nd Grade: Unit 2 Reading: Main Idea: Match

For Students K - 1st Standards
In this interactive learning game, students match terms relating to the main idea with their definitions. These terms include the following: topic, topic sentence, main idea, detail, supporting details, summary, summarize, retell, infer,...
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Interactive
Other

Review Game Zone: Heroic Ants Main Idea and Details

For Students 5th
An online learning game where students choose the correct supporting detail and then see how far they can get an ant to travel through the air. Answer more questions to get more tries for the farthest distance.

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