Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Get the Idea
Learn about and practice finding the main idea in short reading passages.
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Lesson Plan: Decoding: Context Activity
What does it mean to decode words in a context activity? Explore this lesson plan to find the answer to this question and more.
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Lesson Plan: Decoding: Context Activity
What does it mean to decode words in a context activity? Explore this lesson plan to find the answer to this question and more.
Quia
Quia: 3rd Grade Main Idea
This short interactive activity assesses students' ability to identify main idea. Students will read three short passages and identify the main idea of each.
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Crossroads Education: Context Clues Chart
A student's quick-reference guide to using context clues while reading.
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Strategies for Reading Comprehension:reciprocal Teaching
Use this page to understand the reciprocal teaching strategy that includes the role of the clarifier in student groups.
Room Recess
Room Recess: Skill: Context Clues
Play this online learning game by using context clues to click on the work that best completes each sentence.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Teaching With Nonfiction: Teach Text Features
A brief lesson plan, this site offers an example of non-fiction text and a graphic organizer to help orient students to the features they need to use when reading for information.
SMART Technologies
Smart: Main Idea and Details
The interactive lesson is a review of main idea and supporting details.
Learning Games For Kids
Learning Games for Kids: George Washington Word O Rama
As a reinforcement exercise related to a study of George Washington, students will complete sentences about or select the words defined.
TES Global
Blendspace: Main Idea
A five-part learning module with links to videos and images about finding the main idea of a text.
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Worksheet Plus: Give and Get
Read a short literary text called "Give and Get," and then choose the correct answer for comprehension questions at the end of the selection.
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Prezi: Finding the Main Idea in 2nd Grade
By watching this slideshow, students will learn how to find the main idea in a paragraph and the supporting details. It uses the analogy of the layers of a hamburger deluxe.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Nouns and Adjectives Making Sentences
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teachers can use this flipchart to help students make connections between pictures of familiar objects and words which represent these objects within a different contextual setting.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Sight Word Workout
[Free Registration/Login Required] The student demonstrates the ability to read orally with speed, accuracy, and expression. Practice with some Kindergarten sight words.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Sight Words
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a vocabulary and recognition lesson.
Courseware Solutions
Worksheetsplus: 1st and 2nd Grade Sight Word Reading Comprehension: Hot Spell
Read a short literary text titled "Hot Spell," and answer the multiple choice reading comprehension questions that follow.
Can Teach
Can Teach: Word Race
In this activity for grades 1 and 2, students practice examining, copying out, and reading words that are written in the classroom.
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Internet4classrooms:3rd Grade Skills Builder: Main Idea
This interactive Language Arts skill-building site provides links to interactive activities that focus on finding the main idea of a reading selection. Online lessons, games and quizzes challenges students understanding of main idea.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Main Idea Lesson
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on the determining the main idea and details.
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Resource Room: What's the Big Idea?
This exercise can be used to help students develop understanding of main idea and supporting details. Students are given a list of words to analyze, decide the theme and write a common subject that defines the group.
Beacon Learning Center
Beacon Learning Center: Web Lesson: Get the Idea
Read through a lesson about main ideas and supporting details to understand their importance. Practice choosing the main idea of three nonfiction paragraphs. Features practice activities to enhance learning.
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Great Schools: Glossary
This is a PDF printable worksheet for grades 1-3 to teach students how to use a glossary to answer questions.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Nouns and Adjectives Making Sentences
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this activity, students will synthesize what they have learned about nouns and adjectives by engaging in a formative assessment activity using Activotes. Students also evaluate incorrect sentences...