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

Writing Workout: Supporting the Main Idea

Learners will practice identifying supporting details in a short text, then consider three supporting details they might use for an opinion piece of their own.

Strong and Supportive Details in Opinion Texts

Ahoy there! Ready to sail with your students on a treasure map summary? What's that matey? Your students need practice with summaries? Then take a journey and summarize to find the hidden treasure.

Hidden Treasure: Summarizing Informational Text

Need a promotion? Then have your students participate in a writing lesson that will have them voting for you! Give students the opportunity to place teachers in the spotlight, as they persuade others why teachers make the best presidents.

My Teacher for President!

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

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.

Graphic Organizer Template: Concept Web

Children learn to plan and organize their compositions with this writing prompt and template.

Organize Your Informational Essay: Health

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

Main Idea: Working Dogs

Organize Your Informational Essay: Travel

Organize Your Informational Essay: Pets

Organize Your Informational Essay: Classroom Rules

Organize Your Informational Essay: Favorite Activity

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

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: The Influence of Water

Help your student practice story organization with this exercise, where they'll identify the supporting details that properly support the main idea.

What is the Main Idea

Children read about the weather as they identify supporting details in this science and literacy worksheet.

Identify Supporting Details: The Weather 

Children read about the sun as they identify supporting details in this science and literacy worksheet.

Identify Supporting Details: The Sun

Use these paragraph topic prompts to help your child practice writing a paragraph.

Writing a Paragraph

Fully adaptable, this lesson can be used to to highlight African American leaders, famous women, veterans, or any other group of individuals who have acted heroically and have positively influenced our nation!

Activist Heroes

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

Young learners will love finding the main ideas in short informational texts. Featuring a bunch of fun worksheets, this lesson will help students learn about different topics while improving their reading skills.

In Search of the Main Idea

Start Your Engines! It's time to teach your students how to summarize fiction text as you race down Summary Raceway. 

Summary Raceway: Summarizing Fiction

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. 

Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Text

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