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This post has fun main idea activities and resources for elementary teachers, perfect for improving reading comprehension in students!
Main idea and details is one of my favorite reading standards! Click to find great activities you can use to practice main idea and supporting details.
Ideas and activities for teaching main idea and supporting details that students find fun and actually work! Freebie included!
Free reading sorts for grades 4-5 with idea for implementation! These make perfect reading centers, stations, and independent practice reading activiites.
Help upper elementary students learn to identify nonfiction main ideas using authentic texts.
Teach elementary students how to identify the central idea/main topic/main idea and relevant/supporting details with picture books
We've gathered up all of the FREE reading comprehension response sheets we've created and put them HERE! They can be paired with any book and are useful all year long! Grab these sheets for your Kindergarten, 1st grade, or 2nd grade classroom today!
Here, you'll find our printable main idea worksheets for elementary school, middle school and high school students. Click here to get started!
Finding the main idea in a paragraph can be hard for students to understand. I finally know where I should have started when teaching it!
How do you feel when you hear the words main idea or main topic? Do you cringe or do you get excited? If I’m being honest, I used to completely tense up when this unit was up next because it’s a HARD concept for students. Not only was it really difficult for students to understand […]
Introduce main idea and details with this interactive activity that can be use whole class or in small group. Students practice finding details that match the main idea by completing puzzles and recording what they have found. Students can also use higher order thinking to show their understanding...
These worksheets for main idea and supporting details are a great way to build reading comprehension in young students. Grab the free sample.
A few weeks ago we finished up our study of main idea, so I thought I’d share with you a few of our favorite activities and lessons that went on during our unit! To introduce main idea, my students became DETECTIVES. Let me just tell you how thrilled they were. We even pulled out the ... Read more
Main idea and details is one of my favorite reading standards! Click to find great activities you can use to practice main idea and supporting details.
Grab these free main idea passages on task cards - perfect for helping children in second, third, and fourth grade master this challenging skill!
This week in reading we learned all about main idea and details. This is such a tricky concept to teach to the younger kiddos so keeping it fun and engaging for them is crucial! We started off getting our chef hats ready and put on so that we could start cooking in our kitchens (aka tables). […]
Main idea and key details can be a hard thing to teach 1st graders. Check out these ideas to help make it easy and fun...
I have been having so much fun volunteering in my grandson's First Grade classroom this year. I get to work with small groups of children during Reader's Workshop, and I love it. Over the last few weeks I noticed that several groups of children have trouble identifying the main idea of a text. This week I…
