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.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Main Idea & Details
This interactive lesson offers clarification and practice in the realm of main ideas and details.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Topic & Main Idea
[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...
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...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Changing the Ecosystem: Q & a [Pdf]
"Changing the Ecosystem: Q & A" is a one page, nonfiction, reading passage about how the loss of the prairie to farming and population growth impacts the ecosystem. It is followed by questions which require students to provide...
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: My First Baseball Game With Q & a Key [Pdf]
"My First Baseball Game" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about a boy and his sister going to their first baseball game and learning what it means to be Chicago Cubs fans. It is followed by constructed-response questions which...
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.
Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University
De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: My First Baseball Game With Q&a [Pdf]
"My First Baseball Game" is a one page, fictional, reading passage about a boy and his sister going to their first baseball game and learning what it means to be Chicago Cubs fans. It is followed by constructed-response questions which...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Writing a Topic & Concluding Paragraph for the Essay
This lesson is a final step towards supporting students to practice writing an informative/explanatory paragraph conveying complex ideas and presenting information clearly and accurately. Second-grade students can usually write a...
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: 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: 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.
Read Works
Read Works: Trouble in the Amazon
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the causes and effects of the decreasing rain forest. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.