High schoolers use the provided graphic organizer to demonstrate their ability to identify the main idea and supporting ideas in a passage from Charles Dickens' David Copperfield.

Concepts

main ideas, reading comprehension

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Use the worksheet to assess readers' ability to identify the main ideas of a passage as well as the supporting ideas

Classroom Considerations

• The final worksheet in a series of 27 cross-curricular comprehension exercises that ask readers to identify the main ideas and supporting ideas in informational text as well as in excerpts from literature

Pros

• An answer key is provided

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.9-10.2 RL.11-12.2