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Unit Plan
Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Get the Idea

For Students K - 1st Standards
In this reading comprehension exercise, young readers will learn to identify main ideas in paragraphs. Includes multiple choice options with hints.
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Website
ACT360 Media

Writing Den: Supporting Details

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
A short explanation and example of supporting sentences, what they do, and how to write them.
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Website
Other

Ccss Literacy E Handbook: Informational Text: Use Details and Examples

For Students 4th Standards
A short explanation of how to use explicit details in an informational text to make inferences. Click on Model at the bottom right to see a model with examples.
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Website
Other

Ccss Literacy E Handbook: Informational Text: Reasons and Evidence in Text

For Students 4th Standards
A short explanation of using reasons and evidence as supporting details. Click the link to see a model of how to identify reasons and evidence in an informational text. Click on the Model button on the bottom right to see a model.
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Interactive
Other

Review Game Zone: Bouncing Balls Main Idea and Details

For Students 4th
An online learning game where students choose the correct main idea and then try to shoot colored balls before they advance. Answer more questions to get more tries to clear the board.
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PPT
Tom Richey

Slide Share: Main Idea and Detail Power Point

For Students 7th
A slide show with eleven slides with information and examples on finding the main idea and supporting details in an informational text.
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PPT
Tom Richey

Slide Share: Skill Main Idea and Details

For Students 7th Standards
A slide show with fourteen slides with information and examples on finding the main ideas and supporting details in an informational text.
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PPT
Tom Richey

Slide Share: Identifying Topics, Main Ideas, and Supporting Details

For Students 8th Standards
A slide show with thirty-nine slides explaining and giving examples of topics, main ideas and supporting details within an informational text.
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Graphic
ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Connection Web

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This graphic organizer helps students link supporting details to connections such as text-to-text, text-to-self, text-to-world. It can be used as a reading strategy or a prewriting strategy.
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Quia

Quia: Crct Practice: Main Idea

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
An interactive quiz with seven multiple choice questions over four short reading passages. Questions focus on identifying the main ideas and supporting details and choosing an appropriate summary. When finished, students can submit...
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Website
Scholastic

Scholastic: Guidelines for Determining an Author's Main Idea

For Students 7th Standards
Follow the steps in this printable PDF to identify the main topic and key details of an informational text.
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Interactive
Quia

Quia: Main Idea and Details Rags to Riches

For Students 4th Standards
Read a short text and then choose its main idea in this Rags to Riches style game.
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Interactive
Other

Review Game Zone: Heroic Ants Main Idea and Details

For Students 5th
An online learning game where students choose the correct supporting detail and then see how far they can get an ant to travel through the air. Answer more questions to get more tries for the farthest distance.
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Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Main Idea and Details

For Teachers 2nd - 5th Standards
The interactive lesson is a review of main idea and supporting details.
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Whiteboard
SMART Technologies

Smart: Identifying Main Ideas & Details

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
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.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Descriptive Papers

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson introduces descriptive papers.
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PPT
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Descriptive Papers: Key Elements: Lesson 2

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson goes over words, phrases, and key elements that are included in descriptive papers. It is 2 of 2 in the series titled "Descriptive Papers: Key Elements."
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Handout
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Examples as Supporting Details

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson discusses how examples can be used as supporting details. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.1.b
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Main Idea

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
A learning module that includes six links to videos, images, and websites that reinforce the reading skill of finding the main idea.
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Activity
University of Virginia Library

Prism: "Influences on Achievement" Visualization

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted Grant Wiggins' blog post "Influences on Achievement." Strategies we currently use are blue while strategies that are easy to begin are red, and the most...
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Main Idea and Supporting Details 3.5 Ij, 3.6gh

For Students 1st - 3rd Standards
A twelve-part learning module with links to images, videos, and a website on identifying the main idea and supporting details within a text.
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Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Main Idea and Supporting Details

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
An eight-part learning module with links to images, texts, videos, slides, and a quiz on identifying the main idea and supporting details within a text.
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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.
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Activity
University of Virginia Library

Prism: Centrifugal Force (Latin for "Center Feeling") in the Ukraine

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read Max Fisher's article about centrifugal force in the Ukraine, and highlight evidence to support his claim.