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Quizlet

Quizlet: 3rd Grade: Unit 3 Reading: Main Idea: Test

For Students 3rd Standards
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...
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Quizlet

Quizlet: 3rd Grade: Unit 3 Reading: Main Idea: Test

For Students 3rd Standards
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...
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Activity
Quizlet

Quizlet: 3rd Grade: Unit 3 Reading: Main Idea: Match

For Students 3rd Standards
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.
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Activity
Quizlet

Quizlet: 3rd Grade: Unit 3 Reading: Main Idea: Flashcards

For Students 3rd Standards
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.
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Activity
Quizlet

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

For Students 2nd Standards
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,...
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Other

Mc Graw Hill: Informational Text: Determing Main Idea and Key Details

For Students 4th Standards
In this learning module, students are given a model passage with an explanation of the main idea and supporting details followed by a practice passage with questions.
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Quia

Quia: Reading: Finding the Main Idea

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
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.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Main Idea and Details

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards
[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.
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Activity
Quizlet

Quizlet: Stated Main Idea, Inferred, Implied, Main Idea Flashcards

For Students 6th - 8th
Nonfiction terms are included in this review exercise. Interactive vocabulary flashcards are provided for the following words: stated main idea, inferred, implied, and main idea.
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Interactive
Quizlet

Quizlet: Stated Main Idea, Inferred, Implied, Main Idea Match

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Nonfiction reading terms are included in this review "Match" game. Questions are provided for the following words: stated main idea, inferred, implied, and main idea. Images of each of these nonfiction reading terms are also included.
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University of Houston

University of Houston: Atlantis: Main Idea Story 1

For Students 4th
An exercise in finding the main idea. Read a short nonfiction paragraph about Texas, and click on the correct main idea.
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University of Houston

University of Houston: Atlantis: Main Idea Story 2

For Students 4th Standards
An exercise in finding the main idea. Read a short nonfiction paragraph about pollution, and click on the correct main idea.
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University of Houston

University of Houston: Atlantis: Main Idea Story 3

For Students 4th Standards
An exercise in finding the main idea. Read a short nonfiction paragraph about the solar system, and click on the correct main idea.
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University of Houston

University of Houston: Atlantis: Main Idea Story 4

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
An exercise in finding the main idea. Read a short nonfiction paragraph about where different animals live, and click on the correct main idea.
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University of Houston

University of Houston: Atlantis: Main Idea Story 7

For Students 4th Standards
An exercise in finding the main idea. Read a short nonfiction paragraph about computers, and click on the correct main idea.
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Sl.3.2: Determine the Main Ideas and Supporting Details of a Text

For Students 3rd Standards
Links to 44 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard SL.3.2: Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually,...
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Lesson Plan
Teachnology

Teachnology: Lesson Plan: Clouds of Main Ideas

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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...
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Supporting Details

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This tutorial focuses on supporting details using a video of a paragraph from a book showing the topic sentence and two strong, reliable, supporting details. This is followed by a slideshow that stresses the need for variety in the types...
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Unit Plan
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: John's Bright Idea [Pdf]

For Teachers 7th
"John's Bright Idea" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about a mother and children who help a poor boy to support his family. It is followed by constructed-response questions which require students to provide evidence from the...
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Handout
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Supporting Details: Facts and Statistics

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Handout
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Deploying Supporting Materials

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on supporting materials including types of supporting materials and how to effectively incorporate them into your presentation. W.9-10.2b Strong Support, W.11-12.2b Topic/support/aud
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Website
Scholastic

Scholastic: Guidelines for Determining an Author's Main Idea

For Students 7th Standards
Follow the steps in this printable PDF to identify the main topic and key details of an informational text.
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Savvas Learning

Pearson Longman: Main Points, Support Points, and Specific Details

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Part of the Pearson Longman series entitled "Sentence Resources for Writers", this site assesses the high school student's ability to identify main points and develop specific details and support points. Includes ten multiple choice and...
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Unit Plan
Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Central Idea and Evidence: Sea Turtle Nesting

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students practice finding the central idea and summary of a nonfiction piece about sea turtle nesting.

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