Elementary School Main Idea Resources : Page 3

Help your kindergarten students identify the main topic and key ideas in nonfiction texts using this fun pet-themed worksheet.

Learn all about the interesting world of the whale while practicing fluency and reading comprehension skills using this helpful nonfiction reading worksheet.

Help your second grade students identify the evidence behind the author’s purpose.

With a movie word search and fascinating info about early films, this set of reading and writing worksheets is sure to entertain your budding movie-lover!

Children learn about Día de los Muertos as they practice finding and supporting the main idea in this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

Learn more about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, often simply called "The Wall," with this interesting printable.

Maximize what your students learn from reading nonfiction by having them fill out a KWL chart before and after reading.

Introduce children to the highest-ranking female politician in the United States in this Learning About Nancy Pelosi worksheet.

Help your kindergarten students identify the main topic and key ideas in nonfiction texts using this fun horse-themed worksheet.

Students underline key details, such as vocabulary and important information, to strengthen reading comprehension.

In this worksheet, students will learn how to use adverbial phrases in their writing.

Use this bubble map to compare two things in a visually-appealing way.

This worksheet focuses on creating a title for a list of details.

We all want to learn new skills! This worksheet engages students in thinking about what they’d like to learn to do or make, all while learning about nonfiction texts.

This worksheet uses the shape of the sun to teach kids how supporting details come out of the main idea of a text like rays.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Supporting Details.

After students read informational books, have them share and connect their learning by filling out this handy concept map. When they're done, students will have a fun visual representation of what they've learned.

In this language arts worksheet, students read a nonfiction text then represent what they read by creating a helpful chart.

When reading nonfiction books, it’s important to understand the meaning of related vocabulary words. In this activity, students identify sentences that include key vocabulary. When they're done they'll hold the key to reading success!

This worksheet teaches students to locate key ideas, provide evidence, and make connections in nonfiction texts.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Understanding Main Ideas and Supporting Details.

Read sentences from the Constitution to help your students find and understand conditional sentences.

Procedural texts are a great way to engage students in reading nonfiction. This worksheet has students writing their own how-to texts.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Supporting Details.

This worksheet teaches kids the importance of notetaking while reading using the shape of a well-known object: a tree!

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Information from Multiple Sources.

This worksheet offers helpful preparation for students as they learn to become intentional, careful readers of nonfiction.