Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: What Is the Main Idea and Supporting Details?

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
A learning module with thirty links to texts, slide shows, videos, and images that teach about finding the main idea and supporting details in a written passage.
Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Nonfiction Comprehension: Making Personal and Textual Connections

For Teachers 2nd - 8th Standards
This is a lesson plan to help elementary young scholars connect to nonfiction text as they read.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Topic & Main Idea

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Recognizing the main idea is the key to good comprehension. The main idea is a general idea under which fits all the supporting material of the passage or paragraph. Learn and use three strategies that...
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Other

Landmark School Outreach: Finding the Main Idea

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This reading strategy resource provides steps for identifying the main idea of an informational text. Example informational text paragraphs are provided, along with detailed explanations for the processes used in identifying the main...
PPT
Tom Richey

Slide Share: Distinguishing Main Ideas and Supporting Details

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This downloadable slideshow focuses on main ideas and supporting details including definitions, identification, and practicing with paragraphs. RI.9-10.2 central idea/summary
Lesson Plan
Can Teach

Can Teach: Introduction to Character Traits

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
In this lesson plan young scholars will better understand what and how to generate the traits of a character. Lesson plan indicated for 4th grade and above.
Lesson Plan
Can Teach

Can Teach: Different Perspectives a Graphic Organizer

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
In this lesson plan students will read a text from a number of different perspectives which will result in a greater understanding of it. This is a good strategy to use to guide students through multiple readings of a text. Lesson plan...
Professional Doc
Other

Live binders.com: Reader and Task Considerations

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Reader and task considerations including Cognitive Capabilities, Reading Skills, Motivation and Engagement with Task and Text, Prior Knowledge and Experience, Content and/or Theme Concerns, Complexity of Associated Tasks.
Article
Other

Mantex: Tutorials: What Is Close Reading?

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This site discusses the four types of reading: Linguistic, Semantic, Structural, and Cultural and offers a detailed example of close reading. RL.11-12.3 Auth choice story elem, RL.11-12.5 Choice of Text Structure
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Quia

Quia: Reading: Finding the Main Idea

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Students read forty short texts and choose the main idea of each text. Correct answers are provided for any missed, and the score is tallied along the way.
Interactive
Quizlet

Quizlet: Making Inferences (Nonfiction)

For Students 7th Standards
Match five words and definitions about making inferences in nonfiction texts by racing against the clock in this learning game.
Interactive
Quizlet

Quizlet: Making Inferences (Nonfiction)

For Students 7th Standards
Build your nonfiction inference vocabulary by interacting with terms like lesson, data, schema, sources, and more. Choose to view flashcards, complete learning and spelling exercises, take a test, or play a matching or gravity game.
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Quizlet

Quizlet: Text Structure (7Th Grade) Test

For Students 7th Standards
Answer five multiple choice questions defining different text structures including description, problem/solution, compare and contrast, cause and effect, and sequence.
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Quizlet

Quizlet: Text Structure (7Th Grade) Learn

For Students 7th Standards
Type the term matching the definitions of five different text structures including description, problem/solution, compare and contrast, cause and effect, and sequence.
Interactive
Quizlet

Quizlet: Types of Supporting Details: Definitions: Match

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this interactive game, student match terms describing types of supporting details to their definitions.
Activity
Quizlet

Quizlet: Types of Supporting Details: Definitions: Learn

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This interactive helps students learn the types of supporting details by having them type in the terms that fit the definitions.
Activity
Quizlet

Quizlet: Types of Supporting Details: Definitions: Flashcards

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This interactive set of flashcards focuses on the definitions for types of supporting details such as statements of fact, expert testimony, first-hand accounts, personal experiences, statistics, analogies, etc.
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Quizlet

Quizlet: Types of Details: Test

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
This interactive quiz features six multiple-choice questions about types of details and their definitions.
Activity
Quizlet

Quizlet: Types of Details: Match

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
In this interactive game, students match the words having to do with types of details to their definitions.
Activity
Quizlet

Quizlet: Types of Details: Learn

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
In this interactive focusing on learning types of details, students type in the word to match the definition given.
Activity
Quizlet

Quizlet: Types of Details: Flashcards

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
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.
Interactive
Quizlet

Quizlet: Stated Main Idea, Inferred, Implied, Main Idea Match

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Nonfiction reading terms are included in this review "Match" game. Questions are provided for the following words: stated main idea, inferred, implied, and main idea. Images of each of these nonfiction reading terms are also included.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Finding the Main Idea & Inferences

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart will help student find the main idea in writing as well as make inferences while reading. There are 2 web quests embedded that has numerous exercises with sound. There is an Activote...
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Quizlet

Quizlet: Text Structures: Definitions

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Text structure definitions are provided on this page. Students will read the definitions of different text structures and then learn the corresponding definitions. Students can listen to the definitions and words read aloud. Students can...