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.

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.

A slide show with eleven slides with information and examples on finding the main idea and supporting details in an informational text.

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.

A learning module that includes six links to videos, images, and websites that reinforce the reading skill of finding the main idea.

A PDF giving notes and examples on major and minor supporting details and showing how they support the main idea of a text.

Written exercises related to identifying the main ideas and details are provided on this module. Students will enjoy learning about Valentine's Day in these text structure exercises.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A series of three lesson plans designed to teach students to identify main ideas through headings and chapter titles, and then to write appropriate titles of their own. Lessons are based on the books...

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.

This resource provides practice for students in locating where a main idea sentences is located in an informational paragraph. Guided questions are provided for each practice passage.

This graphic organizer can be used with students when they read informational text. Students will write the main idea in a central oval and then write four details that support the main idea of this reproducible graphic organizer.

Read a short informational text and determine the main idea and supporting details. Click to check your answers then click on Practice.

Get an example of how to identify an author's main idea in a text on this site. Also, learn how to recognize supporting ideas to main ideas presented in a text. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.2

Using this comprehensive lesson plan, young scholars will use a web graphic organizer to learn to record the main idea and details learned from informational text read aloud to them.

[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...

Read a short text and then choose its main idea in this Rags to Riches style game.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson focuses on the determining the main idea and details.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a third grade, main idea & details flipchart. It contains an activator, teacher modeling, guided practice, graphic organizers, independent practice, and summarizer. It uses techniques such...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart reviews main idea strategies.

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.

This site offers links to several lesson plans for teaching main ideas to first and second graders; it also provides and explains some activities for teaching the main idea to first graders.

A lesson plan in which students read a text use a graphic organizer to record the topic and supporting details. Materials are included.

This slideshow focuses on the main idea and supporting details including definitions and examples. A more comprehensive slideshow follows the first.

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...