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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

Persuasive writing is at hand! With authentic and relevant school-related topics, students will encounter and use organizational structures found in persuasive essays. 

Strategic School Persuasion

Help students organize their ideas with this versatile storyboard graphic organizer! Children can use it to respond to text, organize the order of events, or even as a pre-writing tool to collect ideas.

Storyboard

Budding essayists will practice organizing their ideas using the template and prompts on this worksheet.

George Washington: You Tell the Story

This lesson will inspire your students to focus on the people, pets, things, places, and ideas that mean the most to them! Your students will practice writing in this heartfelt lesson.

Writing From the Heart

Catch a glimpse into your students’ thoughts and ideas while simultaneously assessing their spelling, punctuation, and grammar skills!

Household Chores: Opinion Writing Exercise

In this worksheet, learners will practice identifying supporting ideas, then follow a prompt to write an informational paragraph of their own.

Strong and Supportive Details in Informational Texts

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

With this worksheet, students will think about something they would like to see changed in the world. Provide them with this graphic organizer to organize their ideas.

Let’s Make Change

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

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

A strong hook will grab a reader's attention and pull them into your story! This organizer will help young writers try out different ideas and decide on the strongest hook for their personal narrative.

Narrative Hooks: Brainstorming

Get kids thinking about their opinions!  This worksheet will help you gain an understanding of how your students organize their ideas prior to crafting a new writing piece.  This resource pairs well with the Household Chores writing prompt.

Organizing My Opinion

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

Kiss “The End” goodbye! This activity gets students to practice using more interesting story endings.

Strong Endings

St. Patrick&#39;s Day is a widely popular holiday all over the world. Teach your students about some interesting traditions as they write an informative text about how St. Patrick&#39;s Day is celebrated.

St. Patrick's Day Celebrations

Students will learn to structure their written arguments as they create their own class paper full of opinion editorial pieces in this fun, real-world driven lesson. Step right up and write all about it!

Extra, Extra! Read All About It

What is the intention of an indentation within a paragraph? Within this lesson, students will explore the reasons why we indent. They’ll categorize and classify content to construct paragraphs that include indentations.

Indentation Intentions

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

Writing a Paragraph

Your students will be ready to write with this paragraph writing worksheet!

Getting Ready for the Day: Paragraph Writing

Whether your student is new to paragraph writing, or needs more practice, this worksheet is a wonderful introduction, practice, or review.

Paragraph Practice 

This worksheet offers useful support for third and fourth graders as they learn to read and write informational essays.

Informational Writing: Strong Support

Who doesn’t love learning about animals? Engage students in research as they write informational books about animals.

Animal Research

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

Your students will love learning all about the playful characters in a classic read-aloud text while digging into what makes characters unique. Use as a stand-alone or support lesson for the How to Analyze a Character lesson plan.

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