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This worksheet challenges first graders to find out the main idea of the passage.

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Main Idea: Farmers

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

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Informational Outlines 3

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.

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Sun Notetaking

Roll up your sleeves and get out the magnifying glasses! In this lesson, your students will practice finding supportive details and examples in informational texts.

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Detective Reading

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 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.

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Important Supporting Details: Helen Keller

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.

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Graphic Organizer Template: Concept Web

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!

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Main Ideas and Details

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

Help students learn how to read passages with multiple main ideas and differentiate between main ideas and supporting details by creating a graphic organizer with proof from the text.

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Power Reading

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

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Storyboarding: Using Pictures to Teach Words

This worksheet teaches first graders to identify the main idea and supporting details by arranging the sample sentences provided.

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Cut and Paste the Main Idea: Mother Cats

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

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Super Survival Skills

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.

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Convince Me: Sports

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.

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Diving Board Organizer

Your students will try their best to convince their school principal that they need more recess during this letter writing lesson.

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Supporting Details

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.

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Carnivorous Plants

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

Give your students a chance to hone their reading comprehension skills by creating nonfiction text summaries in this introductory lesson.

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Create a Nonfiction Text Summary

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.

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Reading to Find the Main Idea and Details

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

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Sentence Sequencing

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.

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Main Idea and Supporting Details

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, 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

Support your EL students in understanding and identifying the main idea and supporting details in a nonfiction text. This can support the lesson Tip of the Iceberg: Nonfiction Summary Details.

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Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Texts

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.

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Tell Me About It! Writing Opinion Essays

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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Putting it Together to Find the Main Idea

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

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

Use this lesson to help your students learn how to find the main idea and details in a nonfiction text using a graphic organizer for support. 

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