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Use this lesson to help your ELs understand main idea and supporting details in the context of sentences and paragraphs. It can be a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson to the Power Reading lesson.

Differentiating Main Ideas from Details

Take mystery and suspenseful writing to the next level with this worksheet! Students can revise sentences and then use this exercise to make their own writing more evocative. Use this worksheet to practice adding vivid details to sentences.

Narrative Writing: Add Sensory Details

Use this lesson to help your students learn how to find the main idea and details in a nonfiction text using a graphic organizer for support. 

Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Text

Get to the point with this worksheet about the main idea and how supporting details help it make sense.

What's It All About? Main Ideas and Supporting Details

Roll up your sleeves and get out the magnifying glasses! In this lesson, your students will practice finding supportive details and examples in informational texts.

Detective Reading

Give your students practice bringing their stories to life as they write realistic fiction!

Realistic Writing

Your students will practice searching for clues to uncover the main idea and supporting details in nonfiction texts about John Muir and Day of the Dead traditions around the world. 

Hey! What’s the Big Idea?

Your students will try their best to convince their school principal that they need more recess during this letter writing lesson.

Supporting Details

With this writing worksheet, challenge students to turn imaginary details into realistic details that could fit into a story.

Make It Realistic!

Write an ice skating story based on the illustration on the page. It can be silly or heartfelt, even science fiction!

Write an Ice Skating Story

Understanding the big idea of a nonfiction text and being able to write a succinct summary are key fourth grade skills. This lesson focuses on summarizing a nonfiction passage in 3-4 sentences.

What's the Big Idea? Summarizing Nonfiction Texts

Understanding the big idea of a nonfiction text and being able to write a succinct summary are key fourth grade skills. This lesson focuses on summarizing a nonfiction passage in three to four sentences.

Feelings and emotions can be a bridge to naming details and helping students identify details to use in their writing.

Elaborating on Feelings

Learning to add details is an important skill for early writers. Your second grader will be guided to think of details to write about a pet in this worksheet.

Write About Your Pet

Can you read 100 books in a day? Run a mile in 30 seconds? Kids can compare fact and fiction with Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyan and others to learn about story structure, character analysis and hyperbole.

Tall Tales

A strong ending is a key part of creative writing! Have your second graders flex their fiction comprehension muscles with this activity. Students will consider problem, solution, characters, and detail as they answer questions after reading a short story.

Finding Louie Alternate Ending

This set of picture cards can help students to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details.

Main Topic Cards

Give your students practice organizing informational texts into corresponding paragraphs using indentations!

Informational Indentations

This worksheet offers students extra practice in recognizing corresponding texts and audiences.

Audience Analysis

In this creative writing exercise, students will rewrite sentences to make them more interesting and practice adding vivid adjectives and adverbs to their writing.

Writing with Unexpected Details

Children will discover more about the culinary history of early Americans as they practice practice identifying the main idea and supporting details.

Find the Main Idea: Native American Foods

What is real and what is imaginary? Give your students practice differentiating between realistic and imaginary details.

Could It Happen?

Help students learn how to identify the main idea and supporting details in a text.

Can You Spot the Main Idea?

Use this fun exercise to help your students add descriptive details into an eerie narrative.

Writing Narratives with Spooky Adjectives

Helping your students support their opinions with thoughtful reasons will prepare them to write strong persuasive texts.

Persuasive Writing: Testing Your Reasons

This graphic organizer template provides a helpful framework for young scholars as they begin to read to learn.

Nonfiction Graphic Organizer Template: Main Idea and Details

Help your student practice story organization with this exercise, where they'll identify the supporting details that properly support the main idea.

What is the Main Idea

Important Supporting Details: The Battles of Lexington and Concord

Help students learn how to read passages with multiple main ideas and differentiate between main ideas and supporting details by creating a graphic organizer with proof from the text.

Power Reading

Students will use real nonfiction texts to search for transition words and then consider how they are used to connect ideas.

Transition Word Hunt

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