Supporting Ideas Questions: These questions ask you to identify the supporting ideas and specific details mentioned in a passage. What does the passage say? Perhaps the most basic task of the Praxis Core Reading Test is recognizing...

[Free Registration/Login Required] A three-lesson unit teaching young scholars to use the first and last sentence to identify the main idea of a paragraph and the first and last sentence in each paragraph to identify the main idea of a...

In this reading comprehension lesson plan unit, students are guided in learning how to find the main theme or idea of a text and understanding how details in the text convey that. Includes lots of exercises and examples, as well as...

A slide show with seventeen slides teaching about main ideas and supporting details within a text.

Ten slides explaining how to identify main ideas and details within a text.

An explanation and examples of main ideas and supporting details.

[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...

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.

Learn about the main idea and get tips on how to find it. After practicing with several short texts, learn how to answer different types of questions about main idea and practice each type.

This interactive lesson offers clarification and practice in the realm of main ideas and details.

The interactive lesson is a review of main idea and supporting details.

Terms related to main idea are included in this review exercise. Interactive vocabulary flashcards are provided for the following words: main idea, central idea, interesting detail, subject, topic, support, supporting detail, theme, and...

A reference article for students to learn about how to determine the main idea and supporting details from the text. Click on the Model for an example with explanation and then click on Practice for a practice exercise.

Use this example to see if you understand how to pick out the main idea and supporting details to that main idea.

Read a passage from a story to see how to determine the main idea and supporting details then practice on your own. Click on Model and then Practice.

During this lesson students begin to identify the main idea of a story they read or hear. Students use graphic organizers to discover the main idea of The Carrot Seed, by Ruth Krauss, and Marsupial Sue, by John Lithgow.

Take this five question self-correcting quiz to test your understanding of the implied main idea.

Take this five-question self-correcting quiz to test your understanding of the implied main idea.

Information, examples, and practice passages to use while learning how to identify the main idea of an informational text.

[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...

Learning how to determine what is the main idea and what are the details in a story helps you become a better reader.

A lesson plan in which young scholars read a text a complete a graphic organizer to identify the main ideas and supporting details. Materials are included.

A lesson plan in which students read a text and record the main ideas and supporting details on one of the graphic organizers provided. Materials are included. [PDF]

A twelve-part learning module with links to images, videos, and a website on identifying the main idea and supporting details within a text.