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...

Is a college education necessary for success in today's world? The class investigates the question, along with others at the end of the sixth workshop in a 15-part series. The lesson has four parts with multiple activities and...

You will learn how to synthesize ideas and details in texts and support the connections with textual evidence.

Links to 44 lessons and activities that build student skills in standard SL.3.2: Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually,...

An explanation and examples of main ideas and supporting details.

In this lesson, you will practice making connections between ideas on the same topic. Some of the ideas will differ from each other, so we will learn how to identify and synthesize important details and draw conclusions. W.9-10.7 Research

See how to pick out the main ideas and supporting details on this site. Click on Model at the bottom right.

See an example of how to determine the main ideas and supporting details of a story.

A slide show with thirty-nine slides explaining and giving examples of topics, main ideas and supporting details within an informational text.

This downloadable slideshow focuses on main ideas and supporting details including definitions, identification, and practicing with paragraphs. RI.9-10.2 central idea/summary

Learn about the main idea and the details that support it by viewing the chart.

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.

This interactive lesson offers clarification and practice in the realm of main ideas and details.

This interactive assessment features 9 matching questions and eight multiple-choice questions over 17 terms having to do with main ideas and supporting details including types of writing and the writing process with their definitions.

In this interactive game, students match 17 terms having to do with main ideas and supporting details including types of writing and the writing process with their definitions.

This set of interactive flashcards focuses on 17 terms having to do with main ideas and supporting details including types of writing and the writing process.

Learn how to identify the main ideas and supporting details in an informational text by using a list of guiding questions.

This site offers links to several lesson plans for teaching main ideas to first and second graders; it also provides and explains some activities for teaching the main idea to first graders.

A slide show with fourteen slides with information and examples on finding the main ideas and supporting details in an informational text.

A slide show with seventeen slides teaching about main ideas and supporting details within a text.

Printable, fifty-five page PDF file of a staff development manual containing strategies for teaching reading. Includes chapters on vocabulary, main ideas and supporting details, author's purpose, chronological order, plot and conflict...

Students practice distinguishing between relevant and irrelevant ideas by identifying relevant details in a video segment about a wild horse roundup. Students watch the video, read the transcript, and identify details they believe are...

This lesson operates on the Scaffold Instructional of Release model (I do, we do, you do). Students will use the main idea and supporting details to expand understanding of a variety of texts.

This lesson uses the book Explorers of North America - A True Book by Brendan January to teach students how to identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph informational text and specific paragraphs within the text. Students are guided...