Browse 5th Grade Identifying the Main Idea Educational Resources

Graphic Organizer Template: Bubble Map

Teachers can use this general organizer template for main idea and details, pre-writing, word analysis, brain dumps, concept mapping, background knowledge collection, and more.

5th grade

Reading & Writing

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Make a Timeline of an Influential Person

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Make a Timeline of an Influential Person

Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.

5th grade

Social studies

Activity

Fifth Grade Independent Study Packet - Week 6

Workbook

Fifth Grade Independent Study Packet - Week 6

This fifth grade independent study packet provides students with Week 6 of remote learning opportunities.

5th grade

Social studies

Workbook

Main Idea & Details: Icebergs

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Main Idea & Details: Icebergs

Students will identify the main idea and supporting details in a short nonfiction text.

5th grade

Reading & Writing

Worksheet

Fifth Grade Fall Review Packet - Week 1

Workbook

Fifth Grade Fall Review Packet - Week 1

Prepare learners for their fifth grade year with the help of this Fifth Grade Fall Review Packet - Week 1.

5th grade

Reading & Writing

Workbook

Video Games: Not Just for Fun

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Video Games: Not Just for Fun

Develop reading comprehension with this video game passage. Ask your students to read the excerpt, then answer questions about the main ideas and details.

5th grade

Reading & Writing

Worksheet

Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #1

Worksheet

Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #1

This discussion guide helps readers reflect on chapters 1–38 of The One and Only Ivan.

5th grade

Reading & Writing

Worksheet

Early Cinema: Magic and Moving Pictures

Workbook

Early Cinema: Magic and Moving Pictures

Learn about amazing works of early cinema with this reading and writing workbook. Pick up fun movie trivia as you complete puzzles, watch your fave movies, make film-inspired crafts, and more.

5th grade

Reading & Writing

Workbook

Fifth Grade Fall Review Packet - Week 4

Workbook

Fifth Grade Fall Review Packet - Week 4

This final installment of our Fifth Grade Fall Review Packet offers five more days of fun and diverse learning activities to prepare children to enter fifth grade with confidence.

5th grade

Reading & Writing

Workbook

Ode to the Olympics: Winter Edition

Workbook

Ode to the Olympics: Winter Edition

This workbook teaches kids about the math and physics behind some of the coolest Winter Olympics sports! Kids solve physics problems with applied math and conduct fun physics experiments at home.

5th grade

Science

Workbook

All About Mummies

Worksheet

All About Mummies

Unwrap the history behind a spooky Halloween favorite: mummies! With this reading worksheet, your child will learn all about mummies.

5th grade

Reading & Writing

Worksheet

Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #4

Worksheet

Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #4

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the last part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

5th grade

Reading & Writing

Worksheet

Historical Heroes: Eleanor Roosevelt

Worksheet

Historical Heroes: Eleanor Roosevelt

Learn about Eleanor Roosevelt, the groundbreaking first lady known for her humanitarian work and for being the first U.S.delegate to the United Nations in 1942.

5th grade

Reading & Writing

Worksheet

I Can Write About Main Idea & Details!

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I Can Write About Main Idea & Details!

In this exercise, EL students will practice using sentence frames to write about main idea and details.

5th grade

Reading & Writing

Worksheet

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Biography

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Biography

In this biography worksheet, children are introduced to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who in 1993 became the second female Justice of the Supreme Court in the United States.

5th grade

Social studies

Worksheet

Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #3

Worksheet

Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #3

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the third part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

5th grade

Reading & Writing

Worksheet

Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #2

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Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #2

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the second part of Katherine Applegate’s The One and Only Ivan.

5th grade

Reading & Writing

Worksheet

Glossary: Main Idea and Supporting Details

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Glossary: Main Idea and Supporting Details

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

5th grade

Reading & Writing

Worksheet

Talkies, Movie Word Search, and More

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Talkies, Movie Word Search, and More

With a movie word search and fascinating info about early films, this set of reading and writing worksheets is sure to entertain your budding movie-lover!

5th grade

Reading & Writing

Worksheet