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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

Main Idea: The Wright Brothers

Use this resource with your students to practice picking out the most important details to support a main idea. Students will read about an significant Native American tribe and determine the most important information in the text.

important supporting details cherokee

Important Supporting Details: Cherokee

Let's get reading! In this lesson, students will identify the main idea and details of a nonfiction text. Use this on its own or as support for the lesson Connecting the Coasts: Effects of the Transcontinental Railroad.

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Nonfiction Main Idea

Help your ELs learn how to identify the main idea and supporting details in a nonfiction text by using nouns and pronouns as guide words. It can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support to the lesson Explorer Letters.

main idea and supporting details

Main Idea and Supporting Details

In this lesson, students use highlighters, graphic organizers, and a classic fable to exercise their understanding of key details and main idea in a text. They will use manipulatives to promote visual and kinetic learning styles.

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Fantastic Fables: 5 W's

Look at history! In this lesson, guide students through an exploration of the context, causes, and effects of the Transcontinental Railroad, and help them practice identifying the main idea and supporting details in a nonfiction text.

connecting the coasts effects of the transcontinental railroad

Connecting the Coasts: Effects of the Transcontinental Railroad

Practice comparing two nonfiction texts in this reading comprehension worksheet!&nbsp;

comparing two nonfiction texts the influence of water

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: The Influence of Water

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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Reading Pictures

Children practice identifying and writing opinions with supporting details in this appealing worksheet.

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Strong and Supportive Details in Opinion Texts: Pets

In this lesson, your students will explore the library in search of various genres of nonfiction texts. Teach this lesson at the beginning of the year to familiarize your students with the structure and organization of the library. 

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Nonfiction Genres

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. 

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Hey! What’s the Big Idea?

Help your ELs familiarize themselves with prepositional phrases as they search for supporting details in nonfiction texts. This lesson could stand alone or be taught prior to teaching the Detective Reading lesson. 

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Prepositional Phrases as Key Details

important supporting details the battles of lexington and concord

Important Supporting Details: The Battles of Lexington and Concord

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.

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Biomes: Comparing and Contrasting

In this lesson, students will identify nouns and pronouns as they distinguish between the main idea and supporting details. It may be taught on its own or used as support for the lesson Compare and Contrast Texts on the Same Topic.

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Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction

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. 

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Diving into Earth's Oceans

Give your ELs concrete experience with adverbs and adverbial phrases as a tool to discover details in nonfiction texts. Use this as a stand-alone lesson or as support to the Hey! What's the Big Idea? lesson.

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Discovering Nonfiction Details

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

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Learning About the Ocean

This paragraph writing worksheet gets your child back to the basics of writing. In this paragraph writing worksheet, kids will write using a graphic organizer.

paragraph writing worksheet

Paragraph Writing Worksheet

This graphic organizer template provides a helpful framework for young scholars as they begin to read to learn.

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Nonfiction Graphic Organizer Template: Main Idea and Details

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

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Identifying the Main Idea & Details

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

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Reading Corner: Main Idea & Details Part 2

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 authors point with evidence

Match Author's Point with Evidence

Take your students to a magical place by having them read stories such as "The Ugly Duckling" and "Rumpelstiltskin." They can read these magical stories and figure out the main idea and details in them!

main ideas and details

Main Ideas and Details

Use this lesson to help your ELs understand inference, evidence, and schema. They'll analyze sentences to make inferences using evidence. It can be a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson to the Inferring With Pictures lesson plan.

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Inference Making

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.

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Differentiating Main Ideas from Details

Help your class grasp the concept of &quot;main idea&quot; with this fun, hands-on lesson. Students will dive into mystery bags full of supportive detail clues to determine the main idea of each bag.

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Main Idea: It's in the Bag!

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.

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On-Demand Prewriting

Use this lesson to help your ELs understand main idea and supporting details. They'll analyze non-fiction word, sentence, and paragraph structures. It can be a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson to the In Search of Main Ideas lesson.

Main ideas and Details

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.

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