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Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Text Structure: Main Idea Mania
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]
Florida Center for Reading Research
Florida Center for Reading Research: Expository Fact Strip [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which students read a text and identify the topic and four facts presented within the text. Materials are included.
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Eastport Elementary School: Mrs. Donahue's Site: Identifying the Main Idea
Information, examples, and practice passages to use while learning how to identify the main idea of an informational text.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: The True Story of Christopher Columbus
In this lesson, 5th graders analyze two nonfiction passages on Christopher Columbus to determine facts and author's bias and its influence on the readers.