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2nd - 5th Grade Common Core Main Idea Worksheets : Page 2

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

Get to the point with this worksheet about the main idea and how supporting details help it make sense.

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What's It All About? Main Ideas and Supporting Details

Unwrap the history behind a spooky Halloween favorite: mummies! With this reading worksheet, your child will learn all about mummies.

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All About Mummies

Learn about Eleanor Roosevelt, the groundbreaking first lady known for her humanitarian work and for being the first U.S.delegate to the United Nations in 1942.

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Historical Heroes: Eleanor Roosevelt

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from parts 2 and 3 of R.J. Palacio&rsquo;s Wonder.

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Novel Study: Wonder: Discussion Guide #2

Invite students to reflect on the major themes and events of Wonder with these writing prompts.

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Novel Study: Wonder: Post-Reading Response Prompts

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

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Discovering Details

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the second part of Katherine Applegate&rsquo;s The One and Only Ivan.

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Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #2

As your students complete this close reading exercise, they will learn about the Transcontinental Railroad while practicing their active reading skills.

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Find & Support the Main Idea: The Transcontinental Railroad

Build critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions for parts 5-7&nbsp;of R.J. Palacio&rsquo;s Wonder.

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Novel Study: Wonder: Discussion Guide #4

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

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Identifying Key Ideas with Repeated Words and Phrases

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the third part of Katherine Applegate&rsquo;s The One and Only Ivan.

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Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #3

In the worksheet The History of African American Spirituals, children read about how African Americans used spirituals during different moments in history, starting from their enslavement to the civil rights movement.

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The History of African American Spirituals

In this biography worksheet, children are introduced to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who in 1993 became the second female Justice of the Supreme Court in the United States.

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Biography

Encourage critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions from the next part of R.J. Palacio&rsquo;s Wonder.

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Novel Study: Wonder: Discussion Guide #3

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

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Nonfiction KWL Chart

Build critical thinking and literacy skills with these discussion questions for the eighth and final part&nbsp;of R.J. Palacio&rsquo;s Wonder.

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Novel Study: Wonder: Discussion Guide #5

This activity guides your readers towards the key details and shows kids how to effectively underline while reading.

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Tracking Important Details: A Look into Marie Curie's Life

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

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Searching for Context Clues & Key Details

Learn more about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, often simply called "The Wall," with this interesting printable.

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Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the last part of Katherine Applegate&rsquo;s The One and Only Ivan.

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Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #4

Help your second grade students identify the evidence behind the author’s purpose.

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Where's the Evidence?

In this reading comprehension worksheet, children will learn about the St. Johns River, the longest river in Florida.

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Nonfiction Comprehension: St. Johns River, Florida

In this worksheet, students will learn how to use adverbial phrases in their writing.

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Adverbial Phrases in Nonfiction

In this exercise, EL students will practice using sentence frames to write about main idea and details.

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I Can Write About Main Idea & Details!

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.

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Ideas of The Harlem Renaissance

Learn about the grasslands biome, then use your knowledge to unscramble the missing words of the paragraph that follows.

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The Grassland Scramble

Children read about Ada Lovelace, whose ideas are still used in computing today, in this biography worksheet.

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Ada Lovelace Biography

This worksheet focuses on finding details within a nonfiction text. First students will read a short paragraph, then they'll answer questions using words from the text before rewording their answers to make them unique.

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