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Showing Results for identifying the main topic in non fiction texts

It's time to dig into some nonfiction books! In this lesson, students will practice identifying the main topic of nonfiction texts. This lesson can be used alone or with the How to Find the Main Idea lesson plan.

Main Topic

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

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Main Topic.

Glossary: Main Topic

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Main Topic.

Vocabulary Cards: Main Topic

Teach your students how to identify the main topic using story cards and an interactive read aloud in this engaging lesson.

What’s the (Main) Topic?

Provide students with an opportunity to closely examine the difference between a topic and main idea in a nonfiction text. Use as a stand-alone activity or a support for the Finding the Main Idea and Details in a Nonfiction Text lesson. 

Main Idea or Topic? You Decide!

Get ready to develop important comprehension skills! As students read an informational passage about dogs, they’ll identify the main topic.

Finding the Main Idea: Dogs

After students read informational books, have them share and connect their learning by filling out this handy concept map. When they're done, students will have a fun visual representation of what they've learned.

Main Topic Map

Get ready to develop important comprehension skills! Students will read different informational passages and learn to identify the main idea. They will then use their knowledge of main ideas to write their own informational passages. 

How to Find the Main Idea

This worksheet challenges first graders to find out the main idea of the passage.

Main Idea: Farmers

This worksheet can help students determine fiction and nonfiction writing styles, an essential part of the first grade language arts curriculum.

Fiction or Nonfiction?

This passage talks all about the importance of friends, but what's the main idea? Students will first read the passage, then determine for themselves what they believe to be the main idea of the passage.

Finding the Main Idea: Friends

This worksheet challenges kids to find the main idea in the passage all about how plants get their food.

Finding the Main Idea: Plants

Students answer key questions about their main character to develop details in this pre-writing worksheet.

Write Your Main Character

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

This worksheet teaches first graders to be literature sleuths by identifying which of the sample texts are fiction and which are nonfiction.

Literature Sleuth

This worksheet helps students, particularly first graders, to develop their understanding of nonfiction texts.

Finding the Main Idea: Apples

As students read multiple nonfiction books about a topic, they’ll begin to learn more. Help them organize their notes and keep track of the new information they're learning with this fun book-themed graphic organizer!

Same Topic, Different Sources

Sorting and categorizing isn’t just for cleaning! In this fun-filled activity, students will learn how to distinguish fiction from nonfiction.

Nonfiction vs. Fiction: Which Style Is It?

Guide students through the challenging task of unpacking the main idea of a text.

What’s This All About? Unpacking the Main Idea!

This worksheet will have students learning about the sequencing of fiction texts.

Choose the Best Ending

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Putting it Together to Find the Main Idea.

Glossary: Putting it Together to Find the Main Idea

What better way to represent what you’ve learned than through an infographic? In this lesson, students read nonfiction texts then create infographics to share the main topics, key ideas, evidence, and more! 

Adventures with Infographics

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Putting it Together to Find the Main Idea.

Vocabulary Cards: Putting it Together to Find the Main Idea

This worksheet teaches kids to look closely at the illustrations in fiction texts to help them comprehend the story.

Picture Clues

As students read nonfiction books, have them think which important words teach about the main topic. At the end of this activity, students will have made a web of vocabulary words!

Graphic Organizer Template: Web of Words

In this lesson, your students will be taken into wonderland by reading familiar stories such as The Ugly Duckling. Your students will identify characters, setting, and main events in these stories.

Storytelling: Identifying Elements in Wonderland

In this lesson, students will look at picture clues to determine the topic of texts. ELs will build vocabulary and language skills by working with partners to discuss and represent texts using drawings. 

Sorting & Describing Books

Use this writing prompt activity to assess your first graders’ abilities to write informational texts. Students will use details and facts to convey a topic of their choosing.

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