This tutorial focuses on supporting details using a video of a paragraph from a book showing the topic sentence and two strong, reliable, supporting details. This is followed by a slideshow that stresses the need for variety in the types...

This slideshow focuses on adding details to a paragraph. It covers ways to add details, primary and secondary support points, a flow chart organizer, moving from the topic sentence to a final essay, and strategies for generating and...

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

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

To understand a text, you must understand the central idea of the story. Learn how to recognize the central idea and supporting details with this article. Click the links at bottom right.

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

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.

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

This activity asks students to differentiate between main ideas and supporting details.

In this science-themed literacy lesson, students learn how to identify the central idea and key details in an article about sea turtles.

A brief, yet detailed explanation of breathing and od the proper support needed for singing.

This interactive quiz assesses students' reading comprehension skills of informational text passages. Students will read 30 short passages and answer question about a detail for each.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A two-instructional activity unit on main idea and details through which students use the topic sentence to identify the main idea of a paragraph and categorize details as main idea or supporting. With...

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] Students read a nonfiction text about dyslexia and the difficulties and successes it brings and answer questions about comprehension, supporting details, vocabulary, transitions, and more. The text is...

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read a nonfiction text about what it takes to be an actor and answer questions about comprehension, main idea, supporting details, vocabulary, transitions, and more. Links to a paired text and...

Descriptive details are used as students develop a guessing game poster for others to try and guess their chosen solid. Included in this detailed lesson plan are videos, samples of student work, a printable worksheet, an assessment...

Students will use illustrations and details in a story to describe its characters, setting, and events by working with partners to ask and answer questions about the text.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Five little monkeys sitting on a bed or sitting in a tree? In this close reading lesson plan, students will compare and contrast the actions of the characters in two of Eileen Christelow's beloved...

Students will read the story and describe the picture details of the illustrations in relation to the text and write about one of the story events. "Go, Dog, Go!" contains illustrations that are very elaborate and crazy while the text is...

Students practice finding the central idea and summary of a nonfiction piece about sea turtle nesting.

Students are provided with an eight-step process for completing academic writing on historic topics. Steps include understanding the topic, making an argument, organizing information and supporting details, and other important writing...

After reading the book Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst, young scholars have the chance to express the way they feel when they have a bad day. They will make personal connections as well as...

A resourceful site explaining, chronicling, and detailing the idea of students' monitoring their own comprehension of a task or understanding. Includes a video link, quotes from experts, links, and more.