EngageNY
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 6
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...
New York State Education Department
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 10
How have educational standards evolved? Educators of adults examine expectations in the 10th workshop out of 15 to better determine how standards have grown. Participants respond to a variety of sample questions to determine how they...
Missouri Department of Elementary
R-E-S-P-E-C-T: A Basic Skill
Imagine seventh graders developing a school wide plan to promote respect in their school. That's the vision behind the second instructional activity in the R-E-S-P-E-C-T series. In preparation for designing a school-wide media campaign,...
Transforming Education
Growth Mindset Strategies
Help your students develop a growth mindset with a list of sample strategies for prioritizing efforts instead of results.Pupils learn how to embrace mistakes, set high expectations, and focus on process over product.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Supporting Details
This tutorial focuses on supporting details using a video of a paragraph from a book showing the topic sentence and two strong, reliable, supporting details. This is followed by a slideshow that stresses the need for variety in the types...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Supporting Details
A six-slide presentation explaining the importance of using supporting details and describing different types of details that can be used to support an idea.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Supporting Details: Statistics
This lesson focuses on using statistics as supporting details. It explains why statistics make powerful supporting details, however, these can be skewed to show different outcomes. It suggests looking carefully when using statistics to...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Revision Technique: Thesis and Support
This slideshow lesson focuses on assessing and revising the thesis, topic sentences, and supporting details in a paper. It uses the analogy of the body: the thesis and topic sentences are the bones and the supporting details are the...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Thesis and Support in the Persuasive Essay (English I Writing)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] A learning module that teaches students about thesis statements and supporting details in an argumentative essay in five mini-lessons: Introduction, Choosing a Topic,...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Research Building Blocks: Skim, Scan, and Scroll
Contains plans for two lessons on locating supporting details that are part of a larger unit on researching a state symbol. It works on skills like determining the most important information, using key words to identify relevant...
University of North Carolina
University of North Carolina: Writing Center: Handouts: Evidence
What kinds of evidence best support the points you make in a paper? Where can you find the evidence you need? This handout answers all these questions and more, including the difference between primary and secondary sources. You'll also...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Explain the Controlling Idea, Purpose, and Distinguish Details
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will learn how to pinpoint the controlling idea, which not only identifies the main idea, but also answers questions about the author's goal or...
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Exp. Text Structure: Classic Classifying
A lesson plan in which young scholars read a text and write main ideas and supporting details in boxes on a graphic organizer. Materials are included. [PDF]
Quizlet
Quizlet: Types of Details: Flashcards
This is a set of interactive flashcards defining words that have to do with details in writing: supporting details, facts, opinion, examples, anecdotes, and statistics.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Thesis and Support in the Persuasive Essay (English I Writing)
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] You will be able to write an essay that includes a clear thesis and supporting evidence.
CPALMS
Cpalms: Understanding Key Details by Using Pancakes for Breakfast
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson plan, learners will be read Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomie DePaola in order to understand and describe people, places, things and events in a text. They will create a book by drawing or...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Writing for an Audience
A seven-slide presentation discussing the importance of writing to an audience in order to establish tone, strengthen word choice, and determine what supporting details to include.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: 4.1: Persuasive Essay
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Learn to write a persuasive essay by organizing arguments in a logical order, providing appropriate supporting details, clarifying main arguments, and identifying...
Quizlet
Quizlet: 4th Grade Q. 1: Main Ideas and Supporting Details: Match
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.
Read Works
Read Works: Main Idea Kindergarten Unit: Using Details to Create a Title
[Free Registration/Login Required] Lesson uses Amazing Gorillas! by Sarah L. Thomson and In the Wild: Leopards by Stephanie St. Pierreto to teach students how to use textual details to create a title for informational text. Ideas for...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Write Expository Text That Is Logically Organized
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] A learning module that teaches students how to write an organized expository text in five lessons: Introduction, The Type of Burger: The Controlling Idea, Toppings: The...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Writing Arguments
This tutorial focuses on argumentative and persuasive writing: it lists and defines the components of arguments, provides a flow chart for argumentative writing, defines counterarguments, and lists the 3 elements of persuasion: ethos,...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Writing a Topic & Concluding Paragraph for the Essay
This lesson is a final step towards supporting young scholars to practice writing an informative/explanatory paragraph conveying complex ideas and presenting information clearly and accurately. Second-grade students can usually write a...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Analyze Thesis, Purpose, Textual Elements in Informational Text
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on how to locate the controlling idea or thesis and specific purpose in a text and analyze the roles they play in understanding what you read. You will...