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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?

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

Teach kindergarteners to be persuasive with their writing. This writing worksheet will help students practice writing a persuasive letter and gives them the opportunity to draw and write supporting details.

Write a Persuasive Letter

Prepare for a world of writing with this packet of exercises, tools and tips. Students learn a few ways to spice up writing, like sensory words, action verbs, supporting details, and point of view.

Narrative Writing

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

Main Idea & Details: Icebergs

In this reading exercise, students answer literal and interpretive questions about a classic text.

Reading Comprehension: Peter Pan

Use this lesson to help your ELs understand main idea and supporting details in the context of sentences and paragraphs. It can be a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson to the Power Reading lesson.

Differentiating Main Ideas from Details

Use this lesson to help your ELs identify and discuss the author's point and the information that supports it. It can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support for the What’s the Point? lesson.

Match Author's Point with Evidence

Help students learn how to identify the main idea and supporting details in a text.

Can You Spot the Main Idea?

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

Identify Supporting Details: The Sun

Young writers practice forming and defending an opinion in this engaging three-page persuasive writing template.

Persuasive Writing #2: Make It Happen

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

Identify Supporting Details: The Weather 

In this worksheet, learners will practice planning and writing a compelling persuasive paragraph on the topic of social media.

Write a Persuasive Paragraph: Social Media 

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

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

Learning About the Ocean

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

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

This exercise gives your students practice using a graphic organizer to record the main idea and supporting details of a short text.

Main Idea: The Wright Brothers

Hone your students' close reading skills by using this interesting and fun lesson that teaches your class survival skills in an informational text.

Super Survival Skills

Practice composition skills and help the reporter get his review of Delicious Treats bakery together sentence by sentence sequencing his points into order.

Sentence Sequencing

This set of picture cards can help students to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details.

Main Topic Cards

Give your students a chance to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details in a nonfiction text.

Main Topic Worksheet

Students will develop pre-writing confidence by learning how to approach unfamiliar opinion writing prompts. Writers will generate a topic sentence and  flush out supporting information.

On-Demand Prewriting

Young writers will review the basic structure of an informative essay, including the topic sentence, supporting details, and a conclusion, as they complete this graphic organizer.

Informational Writing Graphic Organizer

If your child has ever fantasized about being a pro athlete, he'll enjoy this writing assignment! Characters have stats and stories have supporting details.

Creating Character Stats: Supporting Details

Encourage your writers to use this graphic organizer worksheet when writing an informative essay. Fill in the bubbles for topic, main ideas, and supporting details.

Get Ready to Write

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

Help your students explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text by giving them high-interest nonfiction texts to read.

State Your Claim

In the worksheet Blog Template: Listicles, young blog writers create a list of suggestions or ideas and provide a brief description of each with a bullet point.

Blog Template: Listicles

Get students curious about reading with these activities designed to support comprehension. This lesson plan can be used alone or with the Main Ideas and Details lesson plan.

Putting it Together to Find the Main Idea

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