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3rd and 4th Grade Main Idea Worksheets

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

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Main Idea: Working Dogs

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

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Find the Main Idea: Shark

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

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

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

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Find the Main Idea: Butterflies

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

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Main Idea Multiple Choice

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

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Main Idea & Details: Icebergs

Kids put their reading comprehension skills to work as they write out the main idea and come up with their own concluding sentence for this paragraph.

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Find the Main Idea: Elephant

Dive into the sea life of Monterey, California, with this third-grade reading comprehension worksheet!

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Monterey: A City of the Sea

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.

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Graphic Organizer Template: Bubble Map

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

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Main Idea: The Wright Brothers

Children learn about Madam C.J. Walker, the first woman to become a self-made millionaire in the United States, in this Finding the Main Idea worksheet.

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Finding the Main Idea: Madam C.J. Walker

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

Support literacy development by asking questions as they read the first part of R.J. Palacio&rsquo;s Wonder.

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Novel Study: Wonder: Discussion Guide #1

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1&ndash;38 of The One and Only Ivan.

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Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #1

Children will discover more about the culinary history of early Americans as they practice practice identifying the main idea and supporting details.

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Find the Main Idea: Native American Foods

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

Children learn about the Moon, then practice finding and writing the main idea, in this literacy worksheet.

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Find the Main Idea: The Moon

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

Learners practice using context clues to identify the meaning of new words in this language and vocabulary worksheet.

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Finding Word Meaning: Context Clues & Text Features #2

Reading comprehension strategies, such as identifying the main idea, help students focus on how to determine what the author is trying to say.

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Reading Corner: Main Idea & Details Part 1

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

Help your third grader stretch their writing muscles by selecting sentences that support a main idea, then penning a few of their own.

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Writing Workout: Supporting the Main Idea

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

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

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

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Discovering Details

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

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

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

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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