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In this reading exercise, students answer literal and interpretive questions about a classic text.

Reading Comprehension: Peter Pan

Practice comparing two nonfiction texts in this reading comprehension worksheet!&nbsp;

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: The Influence of Water

In this lesson, students will practice "reading" pictures. They will look at the details in pictures in order to make predictions about what happens in a text. This lesson can be used alone or with the Predicting Pictures lesson plan.

Reading Pictures

Reading a short passage is a great way to get kids thinking about the main idea and its supporting details.

Reading Corner: Main Idea & Details Part 2

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 a chance to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details in a nonfiction text.

Main Topic Worksheet

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

Informational texts isn't just found in textbooks. In this reading lesson, kids will examine the writing of a middle school student and use it to learn more about main ideas and supporting details.

Reading to Find the Main Idea and Details

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

Give your students a chance to hone their reading comprehension skills by creating nonfiction text summaries in this introductory lesson.

Create a Nonfiction Text Summary

Get students curious about reading with these activities designed to support comprehension. This lesson plan can be used alone or with the Main Ideas and Details lesson plan.

Putting it Together to Find the Main Idea

Children learn about Día de los Muertos as they practice finding and supporting the main idea in this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.

Find & Support the Main Idea: Dia de Los Muertos

As your students complete this close reading exercise, they will learn about the Transcontinental Railroad while practicing their active reading skills.

Find & Support the Main Idea: The Transcontinental Railroad

Hone your students' close reading skills by using this interesting and fun lesson that teaches your class survival skills in an informational text.

Super Survival Skills

Help your ELs familiarize themselves with prepositional phrases as they search for supporting details in nonfiction texts. This lesson could stand alone or be taught prior to teaching the Detective Reading lesson. 

Prepositional Phrases as Key Details

Get your students excited about geography with a lesson on Earth's oceans. After reading two different texts, they'll be ready to dive right into ocean paragraph writing. 

Diving into Earth's Oceans

Young learners will love finding the main ideas in short informational texts. Featuring a bunch of fun worksheets, this lesson will help students learn about different topics while improving their reading skills.

In Search of the Main Idea

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

Let's get reading! In this lesson, students will identify the main idea and details of a nonfiction text. Use this on its own or as support for the lesson Connecting the Coasts: Effects of the Transcontinental Railroad.

Nonfiction Main Idea

This worksheet uses the shape of the sun to teach kids how supporting details come out of the main idea of a text like rays.

Sun Notetaking

This worksheet teaches first graders to identify the main idea and supporting details by arranging the sample sentences provided.

Cut and Paste the Main Idea: Mother Cats

Young authors will enjoy planning their writing with this memorable burger-themed graphic organizer.

Burger Graphic Organizer

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

Can You Spot the Main Idea?

This exercise gives your students practice using a graphic organizer to record the main idea and supporting details of a short text.

Main Idea: The Wright Brothers

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

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

Children read about the weather as they identify supporting details in this science and literacy worksheet.

Identify Supporting Details: The Weather 

Get your thoughts organized with this handy graphic organizer! Kids can use this template to deconstruct any story they're working on in school.

Bubble Graphic Organizer

Children read about the sun as they identify supporting details in this science and literacy worksheet.

Identify Supporting Details: The Sun

Help your students explain how an author uses reasons and evidence to support particular points in a text by giving them high-interest nonfiction texts to read.

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