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Students will practice identifying the supporting details for three different main idea statements.

Adding Relevant Supporting Details

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

Discovering Details

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

Main Idea & Details: Icebergs

Give your ELs concrete experience with adverbs and adverbial phrases as a tool to discover details in nonfiction texts. Use this as a stand-alone lesson or as support to the Hey! What's the Big Idea? lesson.

Discovering Nonfiction Details

Reading a short passage is a great way to get kids thinking about the main idea and its supporting details.

Reading Corner: Main Idea & Details Part 2

Help your ELs familiarize themselves with prepositional phrases as they search for supporting details in nonfiction texts. This lesson could stand alone or be taught prior to teaching the Detective Reading lesson. 

Prepositional Phrases as Key Details

In this lesson, students will identify nouns and pronouns as they distinguish between the main idea and supporting details. It may be taught on its own or used as support for the lesson Compare and Contrast Texts on the Same Topic.

Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction

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

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

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.

Reading to Find the Main Idea and Details

There are many ways that writers can add voice to their writing, including dialect, emotion, word choice, and ALL CAPS.

Adding Voice to Your Writing

As your students complete this reading comprehension exercise, they will learn about their lungs while practicing active reading skills.

Identifying the Main Idea & Details

The structure of a paragraph becomes clearer when you think critically about the choices a great author made and try to recreate them.

Paragraph Puzzle 1

This resource gives your students practice outlining an informational paragraph on changes during the spring season.

Informational Outlines 1

In this worksheet, learners will rewrite a short paragraph using smooth, flowing sentences.

Sentence Makeover Part 1

Upper grade students will practice using transition words to craft clear and cohesive writing.

Practice Using Transitions #1

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

Nonfiction Graphic Organizer Template: Main Idea and Details

This fun worksheet is an appealing way for students to see how hyperboles can add joy and humor to the writing process.

Hilarious Hyperbole

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.

Detective Reading

Your students will practice searching for clues to uncover the main idea and supporting details in nonfiction texts about John Muir and Day of the Dead traditions around the world. 

Hey! What’s the Big Idea?

Teach students to slow the pace of the story by pausing to take stock of what’s happening around the character and inside the character's heart and mind.

Using Inside and Outside Details to Pace Your Piece

Learn to write more efficiently with this inviting worksheet!

Better Together: Combining Sentences #1

Use these 24 cards for daily writing exercises, or hand them out to encourage variety in writing!

Journal Writing Task Cards #1

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

Find the Main Idea: Native American Foods

With this art-based activity, students will practice supporting their opinion with evidence.

Respond to Art: Opinion & Evidence #1

Young writers will review the basic structure of an informative essay, including the topic sentence, supporting details, and a conclusion, as they complete this graphic organizer.

Informational Writing Graphic Organizer

This lesson combines students' knowledge of US geography and their creative writing skills in one fun activity!

Switching U.S. States

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

Let's get reading! In this lesson, students will identify the main idea and details of a nonfiction text. Use this on its own or as support for the lesson Connecting the Coasts: Effects of the Transcontinental Railroad.

Nonfiction Main Idea

This guided practice reinforces how strong writers make a claim that they can support with strong evidence.

Cite and Explain Your Evidence #1: Literary Response

Look at history! In this lesson, guide students through an exploration of the context, causes, and effects of the Transcontinental Railroad, and help them practice identifying the main idea and supporting details in a nonfiction text.

Connecting the Coasts: Effects of the Transcontinental Railroad

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