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Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Understanding Main Ideas and Supporting Details.

Glossary: Understanding Main Ideas and Supporting Details

Use this lesson to help your ELs understand main idea and supporting details. They'll analyze non-fiction word, sentence, and paragraph structures. It can be a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson to the In Search of Main Ideas lesson.

Main ideas and Details

Use these vocabulary flashcards with the EL Support Lesson: Understanding Main Ideas and Supporting Details.

Vocabulary Cards: Understanding Main Ideas and Supporting Details

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

Your students will be introduced to the concept of a main idea in this fun lesson using props to support their thinking.

Main Ideas, Please!

Take your students to a magical place by having them read stories such as "The Ugly Duckling" and "Rumpelstiltskin." They can read these magical stories and figure out the main idea and details in them!

Main Ideas and Details

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

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

Encourage your writers to use this graphic organizer worksheet when writing an informative essay. Fill in the bubbles for topic, main ideas, and supporting details.

Get Ready to Write

In the worksheet Blog Template: Listicles, young blog writers create a list of suggestions or ideas and provide a brief description of each with a bullet point.

Blog Template: Listicles

This colorful worksheet will help kindergarteners develop ideas for persuasive writing about their favorite desserts. The worksheet includes prompts like "I think" and "it is the best because."

Tell Me Why

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

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

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

Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.

Graphic Organizer Template: Concept Web

Students will continue their informational writing project by organizing the information they gathered through research. They will use a graphic organizer to organize their ideas and sort their research notes into meaningful sections.

Informational Essay: Getting Organized Before Writing

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

Use these paragraph topic prompts to help your child practice writing a paragraph.

Writing a Paragraph

Use this resource with your students to practice picking out the most important details to support a main idea as they read about a famous historical figure.

Important Supporting Details: Helen Keller

Many kids find themselves especially challenged by writing in third grade. Here's how you can help, using a technique called "storyboarding."

Storyboarding: Using Pictures to Teach Words

Children practice identifying and writing opinions with supporting details in this appealing worksheet.

Strong and Supportive Details in Opinion Texts: Pets

Students will develop pre-writing confidence by learning how to approach unfamiliar opinion writing prompts. Writers will generate a topic sentence and  flush out supporting information.

On-Demand Prewriting

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.

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?

This template guides children through the pre-writing process as they prepare to write about a special day, adventure, or experience.

Organization in Writing

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

Support your EL students in understanding and identifying the main idea and supporting details in a nonfiction text. This can support the lesson Tip of the Iceberg: Nonfiction Summary Details.

Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Texts

Help your class grasp the concept of &quot;main idea&quot; with this fun, hands-on lesson. Students will dive into mystery bags full of supportive detail clues to determine the main idea of each bag.

Main Idea: It's in the Bag!

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.

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