Sophia Learning
Sophia: Supporting Details: Statistics
A lesson with audio discussing how analogies can be used as supporting details. [4:00]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Evaluate an Argument in a Text
In this lesson, you'll learn how to evaluate an argument by asking if its evidence is relevant and sufficient. [9:42]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Identify the Main Idea of Text by Synthesizing Key Details
In this lesson, students will learn how to identify the main idea of a section of text by synthesizing key details from the text. [9:02]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Answer Questions About a Text by Locating Evidence
In this lesson, you will learn how to find the answer to a question in an article by locating evidence in the text. Login gives access to a slideshow and a student handout. [4:25]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Determining the Main Idea of a Text
In this lesson, you will learn how to find the main idea of a text by looking at the information you've put into categories and asking "How does it all fit together?" Login gives access to an additional video. [3:28]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Determine the Main Idea of Paragraphs as You Read
In this lesson, you will learn how to keep track of what you read by using your palm for the main idea and your fingers for details. Login gives access to an additional video. [4:02]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Use Transition Words and Text Features to Help Identify Details
In this lesson, you will learn to locate additional details by looking for transitional words and phrases, white space, and text features. Login gives access to an additional video. [4:29]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Determine the Main Idea of a Paragraph
In this lesson, you will learn how to determine the main idea of a paragraph by looking at the first sentence and asking 'what is this paragraph teaching me?' [4:27]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Determine the Main Idea and Summarize a Nonfiction Text
In this lesson, you will learn how to determine the main idea and summarize what you have read by connecting ideas presented throughout the text. [7:16]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Determine the Central Idea of a Nonfiction Article
In this lesson, you will learn how to determine the central idea of a text by determining the topic and asking what the author says about it. [6:57]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Write a Response Using Evidence From the Text
In this lesson, you will learn to write a response by combining words from the prompt, your answer, and evidence. [4:23]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Identify the Main Idea of a Nonfiction Text
In this lesson students will learn how to determine the main idea of an entire nonfiction text by synthesizing the main ideas of each section of the text. Login gives access to a slideshow and a student handout. [6:23]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Determine the Main Idea of an Article
In this lesson, you will learn how to determine the main idea by gathering and using evidence from the text to support the main idea. [8:10]
eSpark Learning
E Spark Learning: Asking and Answering Questions Framing Video (k.ri, Quest 1)
The student is given different scenarios where the cartoon narrator asks questions.
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill: Introduction to Reading Skills: Claims and Support
This engaging video highlights the importance of providing reasons and evidence to support a claim. [2:41]
McGraw Hill
Mc Graw Hill: Introduction to Reading Skills: Claims and Supporting Evidence 2
This video highlights the importance of supporting claims with evidence. [2:35]
Other
Western Reserve Public Media: Teaching With Tech: Tech Plus Crayons
The lesson consists of students working in groups of 3-4 to research different topics about Emperor Penguins. They will scan a QR code, which will take them to teacher-vetted websites for answers to topic questions. These topics are:...
Other
Main Idea Kinder Lesson
In this video, a teacher models a lesson on main idea to kindergarten students. They are shown sets of pictures and have to decide how the pictures are connected. They then read a book about farm animals on the interactive whiteboard and...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Music Video: Who What Where When Why How
In this video, the song "Who What Where When Why How" will help Joel and Benji solve the mystery of Joel's missing hat. This resource teaches question words.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Supporting Ideas Worked Example
In this video [8:01] watch David work through a supporting ideas question from the Praxis Core Reading test. He discusses how to look at the possible answers and mark them out if the text doesn't support them.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Supporting Details: Lesson 4
A slideshow introducing supporting details. It is 4 of 6 in the series titled "Supporting Details."
Learnbat
Show Me: Key Details in a Story
A video screencast [1:45] on using a graphic organizer to identify the key details in a story.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Supporting Details
This lesson introduces supporting details. Screencasts [4:43], [6:39], and [8:24]
Other
The Seahorse Project: Finding the Main Argument in Academic Writing
This video gives you hints on how to read a book chapter or journal article so that you can find the author's argument. [2:50]