Help your active readers identify key vocabulary and important details with the help of two graphic organizers!

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

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts on the same topic.

Students will identify supporting details, in the form of adverbial phrases, in a nonfiction text excerpt.

With this resource, give your students practice comparing and contrasting the most important points and key details presented in two texts on the same topic.

Use this resource to practice comparing and contrasting key points and details between two texts. This graphic organizer will help your students organize the important information from two informational texts on the same topic.

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Discovering Nonfiction Details.

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

Students will identify the main idea and supporting details in a short nonfiction text.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Describe Sensory Details.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Discovering Nonfiction Details.

Nonfiction books have a variety of text features. But they could sometimes use more! In this activity, students analyze the existing text features in a book and create a new feature to add.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Two Perspectives.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Finding the Key Details.

Help your EL students will practice differentiating between big ideas and details.

EL students will practice using sentence frames to write about main idea and details.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Prepositional Phrases as Key Details.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Differentiating Main Ideas from Details.

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

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Finding the Key Details.

Students will note details of theme between two fiction texts and summarize their analysis.

Use this resource for your students to practice reading and comparing the story elements of two fiction texts.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Prepositional Phrases as Key Details.

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Differentiating Main Ideas from Details.

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

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

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