Curated OER
Polarized Light
Students study polarized light and explain how they know it is polarized. In this polarized light lesson students complete a lab that shows them how light can be polarized.
Curated OER
Budget: Don't Go Broke (NEFE)
Students examine how to plan and maintain a balanced budget. In this financial literacy lesson, teacher students follow the PowerPoint and answer questions based on learned information in order to understand where their money goes and...
University of South Florida
Fcat Express: Main Idea With Supporting Details
Strategies to help students recognize main ideas and supporting details provided by a standardized test preparation site intended for fourth grade. Includes strategies such as Main Idea Pyramids, Number Notes, QAR (Question/Answer...
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...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Point to Main Idea/point of View in Literature
This lesson uses the story Corduroy by Don Freeman to teach the main idea and supporting details of a story, as well as what we mean by the character's point of view. The lesson is done using print materials and a whiteboard with...
Read Works
Read Works: Main Idea 3rd Grade Unit
[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson plan unit teaching students to use the first and last sentence to identify the main idea of a paragraph and the first and last sentence in each paragraph to identify the main idea of a...
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.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Lessons and Activities on Main Ideas for First Grade
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.
Read Works
Read Works: Grade 2: Three Lesson Unit: Main Idea
[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to identify main ideas through headings and chapter titles, and then to write appropriate titles of their own. Lessons are based on the books...
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.
Read Works
Read Works: Main Idea Kindergarten Unit: Using Details to Create a Title
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses Amazing Gorillas! by Sarah L. Thomson and In the Wild: Leopards by Stephanie St. Pierreto to teach students how to use textual details to create a title for informational text. Ideas for...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Points of Informational Text Main Idea and Details
This instructional activity uses the book Explorers of North America - A True Book by Brendan January to teach young scholars how to identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph informational text and specific paragraphs within the text....
TES Global
Blendspace: What Is the Main Idea and Supporting Details?
A learning module with thirty links to texts, slide shows, videos, and images that teach about finding the main idea and supporting details in a written passage.
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...
TES Global
Tes: Teaching Shakespeare: Themes: Magic and Supernatural
[Free Registration/Login Required] This collection of resources will help to understand the significance of magical characters and events in Shakespeare's works. Enchantment and the occult fascinated the Elizabethans. It includes videos,...
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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.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Topic Sentences
Often, we ask learners to find the main idea in the story- this helps when re-telling. Why not apply this idea to writing? Find the main idea and introduce your writing with that idea; just like with a book, it helps with re-telling!...
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Teach Expository Text Structure to Facilitate Comprehension
Expository text can be challenging to young readers because of the unfamiliar concepts and vocabulary it presents. Discover ways to help your students analyze expository text structures and pull apart the text to uncover the main idea...
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Smekens Educational Solutions: Expose K 2 Readers to Annotation Strategies
This article discusses how to begin teaching students in K-2 to record their ideas about text using highlighters, colored pens, large graphic organizers, and sticky notes. Students can retell a story with a storyboard, use a web to find...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Sl.3.2: Determine the Main Ideas and Supporting Details of a Text
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,...
LD Online
Ld Online: Teaching Adolescents With Learning Disabilities, Part 1
This article discusses, in-depth, the idea of "watering up" the curriculum for adolescents with learning disabilities. The article begins by explaining that accommodations usually seem to "water down" the curriculum and decrease...
LD Online
Ld Online: Teaching Adolescents With Learning Disabilities, Part 2
This article discusses, in-depth, the idea of "watering up" the social and emotional environment for adolescents with learning disabilities, which is referred to as the affective aspect of the classroom. The author focuses on explaining...
International Reading Association
Reading Online: Teaching the Faust Theme Through Music, Literature, and Film
Research and ideas about using music, literature, and film to teach the theme of Faust selling his soul for knowledge and power.
Rick Beach
Teaching Literature to Adolescents, 2nd Edition: Leading Student Responses
The textbook entitled Teaching Literature to Adolescents, 2nd Edition contains activities for Chapter 5 reflection. Intended for high school teachers, this site contains activities that will extend the content from the Chapter 5. Focus...