In this worksheet, students will read two different passages about the platypus. Kids will compare and contrast the passages, and identify the main ideas.

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Repeated Words and Phrases.

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

Use these vocabulary flashcards with the EL Support Lesson: Understanding Main Ideas and Supporting Details.

Use this resource to give your students practice identifying key ideas by looking for repeated words and phrases in a text.

This worksheet provides students with an opportunity to closely examine the difference between a topic and main idea in a nonfiction text. After reading and completing Part 1 as a class, challenge your students to complete Part 2 on their own or with a pa

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

Teachers can use this general organizer template for main idea and details, pre-writing, word analysis, brain dumps, concept mapping, background knowledge collection, and more.

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.

Kids will learn about sharks as they read this short and informative worksheet.

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

Dig into main ideas and details as you read about salsa gardens in this engaging worksheet!

This quick story of Captain Kidd brings pirates and reading on an adventure for your kids!

This short nonfiction text will teach students about the ocean, and includes questions to help students identify the author’s point of view and purpose for writing the text by focusing on important vocabulary words that support the main idea.

Practice reading nonfiction and making connections in a text with this informational worksheet all about George Washington!

What do animals do when the weather gets cold and snow starts to fall? Learn about it in this worksheet!

Maximize what your students learn from reading nonfiction by having them fill out a KWL chart before and after reading.

The worksheet provides a tool for learners to gather and organize key information about civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Children learn about the ways that butterflies like the viceroy and buckeye avoid predators in this engaging reading comprehension worksheet.

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

Have students record questions on sticky notes as they are reading, then they'll compile them all on this helpful worksheet before tracking down and recording their answers.

Facts about ostrich include that they are the largest birds in the world and that they can't fly, but that's not all. Learn all about this amazing bird!

Hook young learners into reading with this colorful passage on crochet!

In the worksheet Ideas of the Harlem Renaissance, children learn what this cultural movement was about, as well as some famous artists who emerged at the time.

In the worksheet Ideas of the Harlem Renaissance, children learn what this cultural movement was about, as well as some famous artists who emerged at the time.

Track down the main idea in this foundational worksheet! 

Children will be inspired by the many ways dogs help their human companions in this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet.

Readers practice identifying the main idea in works of nonfiction in this two-page reading comprehension worksheet.