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Mt. San Antonio College: Finding the Main Idea

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
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.
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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
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Prezi: Finding the Main Idea in 2nd Grade

For Students 2nd - 3rd Standards
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.
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Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: Identifying the Main Idea

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This resource defines main ideas and is an interactive way to assess a student's ability to correctly find main ideas from paragraphs.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Main Idea

For Students 2nd - 4th Standards
A five-part learning module with links to videos and images about finding the main idea of a text.
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.
Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Main Idea Activities

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
A learning module that includes six links to videos, images, graphic organizers, and websites that reinforce the reading skill of finding the main idea.
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.
Unit Plan
TES Global

Blendspace: Main Idea

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
A learning module with six links to images and videos on finding the main idea of a text.
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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TES Global

Blendspace: Investigating Main Idea

For Students 3rd - 6th Standards
An eleven-part learning module with links to images, videos, websites, slides, and a quiz about finding the main idea.
PPT
Other

Prezi: Implied and Stated Main Idea

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Slideshow explains the difference between implied and stated main ideas and provides practice with finding the main idea.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: There Is Something in Common: Finding Common Themes

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Students will synthesize information from multiple historical fiction books to find common themes and support them with evidence from the text. Working with a partner who has read a different book, they will share their theme from their...
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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.
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Soft Schools

Soft Schools: What's the Main Idea? Quiz

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This main idea quiz begins with a page explaining how to find the main idea followed by the self-scoring quiz. Students read short passages and select the main idea. A score sheet is presented at the end of the quiz.
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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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Beacon Learning Center

Beacon Learning Center: Web Lessons: Get the Main Idea

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
This resource provides practice finding the main idea by having students read a paragraph and choose the main idea. Then it asks students to take what they have learned and apply it to a book of their choice, and then write a paragraph...
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University of Houston

University of Houston: Atlantis: Main Idea Story 1

For Students 4th
An exercise in finding the main idea. Read a short nonfiction paragraph about Texas, and click on the correct main idea.
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University of Houston

University of Houston: Atlantis: Main Idea Story 2

For Students 4th Standards
An exercise in finding the main idea. Read a short nonfiction paragraph about pollution, and click on the correct main idea.
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University of Houston

University of Houston: Atlantis: Main Idea Story 3

For Students 4th Standards
An exercise in finding the main idea. Read a short nonfiction paragraph about the solar system, and click on the correct main idea.
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University of Houston

University of Houston: Atlantis: Main Idea Story 4

For Students 3rd - 4th Standards
An exercise in finding the main idea. Read a short nonfiction paragraph about where different animals live, and click on the correct main idea.
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University of Houston

University of Houston: Atlantis: Main Idea Story 7

For Students 4th Standards
An exercise in finding the main idea. Read a short nonfiction paragraph about computers, and click on the correct main idea.
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Internet4classrooms:3rd Grade Skills Builder: Main Idea

For Students 2nd - 5th Standards
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.
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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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