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Get to the point with this worksheet about the main idea and how supporting details help it make sense.

What's It All About? Main Ideas and Supporting Details

Learners will practice identifying the main idea and supporting in works of nonfiction texts as they learn about the ocean.

Learning About the Ocean

Learning to add details is an important skill for early writers. Your second grader will be guided to think of details to write about a pet in this worksheet.

Write About Your Pet

Do your students have strong opinions? This lesson, which features a bunch of fun essay-building exercises, provides an outlet for young writers to express their opinions.

Tell Me About It! Writing Opinion Essays

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

Graphic Organizer Template: Concept Web

Super powers and saving the world will make any child want to write! Your third grader will learn about adding supporting details to their main idea.

Super Hero Supporting Details

Children read about the weather as they identify supporting details in this science and literacy worksheet.

Identify Supporting Details: The Weather 

Children read about the sun as they identify supporting details in this science and literacy worksheet.

Identify Supporting Details: The Sun

In writing, supporting the main idea with details is a skill your child should learn early on. Your second grader will fill in the details about a best friend!

Supporting Details: Who is Your Best Friend?

Use this exercise with your students to pick out facts that would support a paragraph about spring cleaning

Informational Outlines 3

As your students complete this reading comprehension exercise, they will learn about their lungs while practicing active reading skills.

Identifying the Main Idea & Details

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

Find & Support the Main Idea: Dia de Los Muertos

As your students complete this close reading exercise, they will learn about the Transcontinental Railroad while practicing their active reading skills.

Find & Support the Main Idea: The Transcontinental Railroad

Write about the main idea and supporting details in this worksheet. This worksheet will help your kid organize her thoughts and describe details.

Main Idea and Details: Summer Vacation

This template guides children through the pre-writing process as they prepare to write about a special day, adventure, or experience.

Organization in Writing

Children will discover more about the culinary history of early Americans as they practice practice identifying the main idea and supporting details.

Find the Main Idea: Native American Foods

Step into the shoes of an explorer. Students will learn more about the lives and accomplishments of important explorers, and they'll demonstrate their knowledge through a creative writing assignment.

Explorer Letters

Use this resource with your students to practice picking out the most important details to support a main idea as they read about a famous historical figure.

Important Supporting Details: Helen Keller

This sports-themed worksheet is bound to rally up your kindergarteners' opinions. With this persuasive writing worksheet, your students will write about their favorite sports.

Convince Me: Sports

This lesson combines an introduction to biomes with some fun Venn diagram exercises. Not only will students learn more about nature, they'll also learn how to make comparisons between different things in nature.

Biomes: Comparing and Contrasting

You’ve probably heard of carnivorous animals, but have you heard of carnivorous plants? Use this lesson to teach your students about carnivorous plants by having them research characteristics and create a presentation.

Carnivorous Plants

Get your students excited about geography with a lesson on Earth's oceans. After reading two different texts, they'll be ready to dive right into ocean paragraph writing. 

Diving into Earth's Oceans

This colorful worksheet will help kindergarteners develop ideas for persuasive writing about their favorite desserts. The worksheet includes prompts like "I think" and "it is the best because."

Tell Me Why

Reading a short passage is a great way to get kids thinking about the main idea and its supporting details.

Reading Corner: Main Idea & Details Part 2

Bram Stoker's Dracula has inspired feelings of fear and morbid curiosity for over a century. With this lesson plan, your students will get a taste of the literary work while learning about the myth behind vampires.

Mythological Creature: Vampire

Write an informational essay about a summer topic like vacations, swimming pools, or outside games. Inspire your students to plan their essay with this summer-themed graphic organizer.

Diving Board Organizer

Your students will practice searching for clues to uncover the main idea and supporting details in nonfiction texts about John Muir and Day of the Dead traditions around the world. 

Hey! What’s the Big Idea?

Young learners will love finding the main ideas in short informational texts. Featuring a bunch of fun worksheets, this lesson will help students learn about different topics while improving their reading skills.

In Search of the Main Idea

Informational texts isn't just found in textbooks. In this reading lesson, kids will examine the writing of a middle school student and use it to learn more about main ideas and supporting details.

Reading to Find the Main Idea and Details

In this lesson, students will practice "reading" pictures. They will look at the details in pictures in order to make predictions about what happens in a text. This lesson can be used alone or with the Predicting Pictures lesson plan.

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