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Preschool - 4th Grade Main Idea Worksheets : Page 3

This worksheet focuses on creating a title for a list of details.

The Topic of Details

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

Where's the Evidence?

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

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

Introduce children to the highest-ranking female politician in the United States in this Learning About Nancy Pelosi worksheet. 

Learning About Nancy Pelosi 

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

Adverbial Phrases in Nonfiction

We all want to learn new skills! This worksheet engages students in thinking about what they’d like to learn to do or make, all while learning about nonfiction texts.

Teach Me How To...

Help your second grade students identify the author’s purpose as they answer questions about a nonfiction text.

Finding the Purpose

Children learn about Día de los Muertos as they practice finding and supporting the main idea in this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

Find & Support the Main Idea: Dia de Los Muertos

Use this bubble map to compare two things in a visually-appealing way.

Double Bubble Thinking Map

Thinking Routine: Parts, Purposes, and Complexities

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

Glossary: Understanding Main Ideas and Supporting Details

In this language arts worksheet, students read a nonfiction text then represent what they read by creating a helpful chart.

Comprehension Chart

This worksheet teaches students to locate key ideas, provide evidence, and make connections in nonfiction texts.

Connections, Evidence, Oh My!

This one page printable features the Hanukkah story for kids in a very short version.

Story of Hanukkah for Children

Students underline key details, such as vocabulary and important information, to strengthen reading comprehension.

Underline Key Details

After students read informational books, have them share and connect their learning by filling out this handy concept map. When they're done, students will have a fun visual representation of what they've learned.

Main Topic Map

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Legacy Graphic Organizer

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction.

Glossary: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Main Topic.

Glossary: Main Topic

This worksheet uses the shape of the sun to teach kids how supporting details come out of the main idea of a text like rays.

Sun Notetaking

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

Captain Kidd

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction.

Vocabulary Cards: Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction

This worksheet helps students identify and make connections between key ideas in nonfiction readings.

Idea Connector

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

Glossary: Repeated Words and Phrases

Teach kids the art of book recommendations with this fill-in-the-blank worksheet.

Recommended By Me! 

Help your kindergarten students think about key ideas they’ve learned about penguins using this helpful worksheet.

Interesting Penguins

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Unknown Words.

Glossary: Unknown Words

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Sorting & Describing Books.

Vocabulary Cards: Sorting & Describing Books

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Main Idea or Topic? You Decide!

Glossary: Main Idea or Topic? You Decide!

Read about this dry, warm biome, then review what you've learned as you play a round or two of this fun-fact card game.

Chaparral Memory

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