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William & Mary

Inferential Reading Comprehension Considerations Packet

For Teachers 3rd - 8th

Don't forget to read between the lines! Educators learn tips and activities to help scholars learn to infer to increase reading comprehension. Activities suggested include think alouds, backwards words, and who's who. the packet includes...

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Five Main Types of Graphic Organizers

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards

This site provides information on how to use each graphic organizer. There are also 21 different graphic organizers for you to see.

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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What Is the Main Idea?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

During this lesson students begin to identify the main idea of a story they read or hear. Students use graphic organizers to discover the main idea of The Carrot Seed, by Ruth Krauss, and Marsupial Sue, by John Lithgow.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Keys to the Main Idea [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 4th Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a text a complete a graphic organizer to identify the main ideas and supporting details. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Main Idea Mania

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a text and record the main ideas and supporting details on one of the graphic organizers provided. Materials are included. [PDF]

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Scholastic

Scholastic: Informational Text: Reading Response: Main Ideas & Details [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

This graphic organizer can be used with students when they read informational text. Students will write the main idea in a central oval and then write four details that support the main idea of this reproducible graphic organizer.

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Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Graphic Organizers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

A collection of pre-formatted graphic organizers that you can integrate into activities and lesson plans or use by themselves.

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TES Global

Blendspace: Main Idea Activities

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards

A learning module that includes six links to videos, images, graphic organizers, and websites that reinforce the reading skill of finding the main idea.

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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Graphic Organizer Spider Graphic

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

[Free Registration/Login Required] This graphic organizer provides a webbing framework for students to analyze the main idea/theme and supporting details of a reading passage or historical event. A template for students to follow is given.

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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Main Idea

For Teachers 3rd - 5th

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a third grade, main idea & details flipchart. It contains an activator, teacher modeling, guided practice, graphic organizers, independent practice, and summarizer. It uses techniques such...

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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Analyze Nonfiction: Central Idea [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards

This graphic organizer will help students analyze nonfiction pieces. Students will use the graphic organizer to guide them as they identify the central idea and supporting details.

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Smekens Educational Solutions: Expose K 2 Readers to Annotation Strategies

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

This article discusses how to begin teaching students in K-2 to record their ideas about text using highlighters, colored pens, large graphic organizers, and sticky notes. Students can retell a story with a storyboard, use a web to find...

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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Topic Sentences

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

Often, we ask learners to find the main idea in the story- this helps when re-telling. Why not apply this idea to writing? Find the main idea and introduce your writing with that idea; just like with a book, it helps with re-telling!...

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Utah Education Network

Uen: Memories, a Connection to the Past

For Teachers 3rd

This instructional activity engages students in reading comprehension strategies related to Elizabeth Howard's Aunt Flossie's Hats, Mem Fox's Wilford Gordon McDonald Partridge, Bill Martin's Knots On A Counting Rope, and Lucia Gonzales'...

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CPALMS

Cpalms: It's All in the Details

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards

Using this comprehensive lesson plan, students will use a web graphic organizer to learn to record the main idea and details learned from informational text read aloud to them.

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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Essay Map

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

A fillable essay map in PDF format with boxes for an introduction, main ideas, supporting details, and a conclusion. Directions on how to use this type of graphic organizer as well as lists of teaching ideas and related resources are...

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Classic Classifying

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a text and write main ideas and supporting details in boxes on a graphic organizer. Materials are included. [PDF]

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Exploration [Pdf]

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a text and complete a graphic organizer to identify the main idea and supporting details. Materials are included.

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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Chicago Legacy: Du Sable [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th

"Chicago Legacy: DuSable" is a one page, biographical passage about Jean Baptiste Point DuSable, the first non-native American to settle in Chicago. He started a trading post around which the city grew. It is followed by questions which...

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Classifying Info [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a text and complete a graphic organizer to find the main idea and supporting details. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Summarizing [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which students read a text and record the main ideas and supporting details on a graphic organizer. Students then complete the organizer by writing a summary of the text. Materials are included.

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Florida Center for Reading Research

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Just the Facts

For Teachers K - 1st Standards

A lesson plan in which learners read a text and complete a graphic organizer to identify the topic and supporting details or facts. Materials are included.

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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: I Can Analyze a Story or History [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

This graphic organizer can be used to help students analyze a story or a historical event. Students will look closely at the story's characters or people involved in the historical event. Then they will summarize the story or event, and...

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Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Frame Routine

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards

The Frame Routine is a strategy designed to assist students as they organize topics, main ideas and details about reading assignments. This technique includes a basic hierarchic graphic organizer called a "Frame" that can be used to help...

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Inferential Reading Comprehension Considerations Packet

Five Main Types of Graphic Organizers

Alex: What Is the Main Idea?

Florida Center for Reading Research: Keys to the Main Idea [Pdf]

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Main Idea Mania

Scholastic: Informational Text: Reading Response: Main Ideas & Details [Pdf]

Thinkport: Graphic Organizers

Blendspace: Main Idea Activities

Class Flow: Graphic Organizer Spider Graphic

Class Flow: Main Idea

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Analyze Nonfiction: Central Idea [Pdf]

Smekens Educational Solutions: Expose K 2 Readers to Annotation Strategies

Better Lesson: Topic Sentences

Uen: Memories, a Connection to the Past

Cpalms: It's All in the Details

Read Write Think: Essay Map

Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Classic Classifying

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Exploration [Pdf]

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Chicago Legacy: Du Sable [Pdf]

Florida Center for Reading Research: Classifying Info [Pdf]

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Summarizing [Pdf]

Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Just the Facts

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: I Can Analyze a Story or History [Pdf]

Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Frame Routine

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