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Main Idea: Working Dogs
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Main Idea: Working Dogs
Third Grade
Reading
Children will be inspired by the many ways dogs help their human companions in this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet.
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Main Idea: Working Dogs
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Main Idea: Working Dogs
Children will be inspired by the many ways dogs help their human companions in this nonfiction reading comprehension worksheet.
Third Grade
Reading
Worksheet
Find the Main Idea: Shark
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Find the Main Idea: Shark
Third Grade
Reading
Kids will learn about sharks as they read this short and informative worksheet.
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Find the Main Idea: Shark
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Find the Main Idea: Shark
Kids will learn about sharks as they read this short and informative worksheet.
Third Grade
Reading
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What's the Main Idea?
Interactive Worksheet
What's the Main Idea?
Second Grade
Reading
Track down the main idea in this foundational worksheet!
Interactive Worksheet
What's the Main Idea?
Interactive Worksheet
What's the Main Idea?
Track down the main idea in this foundational worksheet!
Second Grade
Reading
Interactive Worksheet
Main Idea Multiple Choice
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Main Idea Multiple Choice
Third Grade
Reading
Readers practice identifying the main idea in works of nonfiction in this two-page reading comprehension worksheet.
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Main Idea Multiple Choice
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Main Idea Multiple Choice
Readers practice identifying the main idea in works of nonfiction in this two-page reading comprehension worksheet.
Third Grade
Reading
Worksheet
Identifying the Main Idea & Details
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Identifying the Main Idea & Details
Fourth Grade
Reading
As your students complete this reading comprehension exercise, they will learn about their lungs while practicing active reading skills.
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Identifying the Main Idea & Details
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Identifying the Main Idea & Details
As your students complete this reading comprehension exercise, they will learn about their lungs while practicing active reading skills.
Fourth Grade
Reading
Worksheet
Make a Timeline of an Influential Person
Activity
Make a Timeline of an Influential Person
Second Grade
Reading
Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.
Activity
Make a Timeline of an Influential Person
Activity
Make a Timeline of an Influential Person
Children research and make a timeline of an inspiring woman in this biography activity.
Second Grade
Reading
Activity
Main Idea of a Story
Interactive Worksheet
Main Idea of a Story
Third Grade
Reading
Finding the main idea of a story is a fundamental reading comprehension skill. Help your child tackle reading with this beginner's worksheet!
Interactive Worksheet
Main Idea of a Story
Interactive Worksheet
Main Idea of a Story
Finding the main idea of a story is a fundamental reading comprehension skill. Help your child tackle reading with this beginner's worksheet!
Third Grade
Reading
Interactive Worksheet
Find the Main Idea: Butterflies
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Find the Main Idea: Butterflies
Third Grade
Reading
Children learn about the ways that butterflies like the viceroy and buckeye avoid predators in this engaging reading comprehension worksheet.
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Find the Main Idea: Butterflies
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Find the Main Idea: Butterflies
Children learn about the ways that butterflies like the viceroy and buckeye avoid predators in this engaging reading comprehension worksheet.
Third Grade
Reading
Worksheet
Main Idea & Details: Icebergs
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Main Idea & Details: Icebergs
Third Grade
Reading
Students will identify the main idea and supporting details in a short nonfiction text.
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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.
Third Grade
Reading
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Graphic Organizer Template: Bubble Map
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Graphic Organizer Template: Bubble Map
Kindergarten
Reading
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.
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Graphic Organizer Template: Bubble Map
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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.
Kindergarten
Reading
Worksheet
Find the Main Idea: The Moon
Worksheet
Find the Main Idea: The Moon
Fourth Grade
Reading
Children learn about the Moon, then practice finding and writing the main idea, in this literacy worksheet.
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Find the Main Idea: The Moon
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Find the Main Idea: The Moon
Children learn about the Moon, then practice finding and writing the main idea, in this literacy worksheet.
Fourth Grade
Reading
Worksheet
Learning About the Ocean
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Learning About the Ocean
Third Grade
Reading
Learners will practice identifying the main idea and supporting in works of nonfiction texts as they learn about the ocean.
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Learning About the Ocean
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Learning About the Ocean
Learners will practice identifying the main idea and supporting in works of nonfiction texts as they learn about the ocean.
Third Grade
Reading
Worksheet
Graphic Organizer Template: Concept Web
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Graphic Organizer Template: Concept Web
Second Grade
Reading
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.
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Graphic Organizer Template: Concept Web
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Graphic Organizer Template: Concept Web
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.
Second Grade
Reading
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Nonfiction Graphic Organizer Template: Main Idea and Details
Worksheet
Nonfiction Graphic Organizer Template: Main Idea and Details
Kindergarten
Reading
This graphic organizer template provides a helpful framework for young scholars as they begin to read to learn.
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Nonfiction Graphic Organizer Template: Main Idea and Details
Worksheet
Nonfiction Graphic Organizer Template: Main Idea and Details
This graphic organizer template provides a helpful framework for young scholars as they begin to read to learn.
Kindergarten
Reading
Worksheet
Reading Corner: Main Idea & Details Part 2
Worksheet
Reading Corner: Main Idea & Details Part 2
Fourth Grade
Reading
Reading a short passage is a great way to get kids thinking about the main idea and its supporting details.
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Reading Corner: Main Idea & Details Part 2
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Reading Corner: Main Idea & Details Part 2
Reading a short passage is a great way to get kids thinking about the main idea and its supporting details.
Fourth Grade
Reading
Worksheet
Reading Corner: Main Idea & Details Part 1
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Reading Corner: Main Idea & Details Part 1
Third Grade
Reading
Reading comprehension strategies, such as identifying the main idea, help students focus on how to determine what the author is trying to say.
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Reading Corner: Main Idea & Details Part 1
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Reading Corner: Main Idea & Details Part 1
Reading comprehension strategies, such as identifying the main idea, help students focus on how to determine what the author is trying to say.
Third Grade
Reading
Worksheet
Find the Main Idea: Elephant
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Find the Main Idea: Elephant
Fourth Grade
Reading
Kids put their reading comprehension skills to work as they write out the main idea and come up with their own concluding sentence for this paragraph.
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Find the Main Idea: Elephant
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Find the Main Idea: Elephant
Kids put their reading comprehension skills to work as they write out the main idea and come up with their own concluding sentence for this paragraph.
Fourth Grade
Reading
Worksheet
Writing Workout: Supporting the Main Idea
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Writing Workout: Supporting the Main Idea
Third Grade
Reading
Help your third grader stretch their writing muscles by selecting sentences that support a main idea, then penning a few of their own.
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Writing Workout: Supporting the Main Idea
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Writing Workout: Supporting the Main Idea
Help your third grader stretch their writing muscles by selecting sentences that support a main idea, then penning a few of their own.
Third Grade
Reading
Worksheet
What's It All About? Main Ideas and Supporting Details
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What's It All About? Main Ideas and Supporting Details
Fourth Grade
Reading
Get to the point with this worksheet about the main idea and how supporting details help it make sense.
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What's It All About? Main Ideas and Supporting Details
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What's It All About? Main Ideas and Supporting Details
Get to the point with this worksheet about the main idea and how supporting details help it make sense.
Fourth Grade
Reading
Worksheet
Main Idea: The Wright Brothers
Worksheet
Main Idea: The Wright Brothers
Third Grade
Reading
This exercise gives your students practice using a graphic organizer to record the main idea and supporting details of a short text.
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Main Idea: The Wright Brothers
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Main Idea: The Wright Brothers
This exercise gives your students practice using a graphic organizer to record the main idea and supporting details of a short text.
Third Grade
Reading
Worksheet
Finding the Main Idea: Madam C.J. Walker
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Finding the Main Idea: Madam C.J. Walker
Fourth Grade
Reading
Children learn about Madam C.J. Walker, the first woman to become a self-made millionaire in the United States, in this Finding the Main Idea worksheet.
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Finding the Main Idea: Madam C.J. Walker
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Finding the Main Idea: Madam C.J. Walker
Children learn about Madam C.J. Walker, the first woman to become a self-made millionaire in the United States, in this Finding the Main Idea worksheet.
Fourth Grade
Reading
Worksheet
Light and Color
Workbook
Light and Color
Third Grade
Reading
Did you know that light can bend? Help your curious kids learn the important physical properties of light and explore how light adds colors to our world, with this beautiful series on light and color.
Workbook
Light and Color
Workbook
Light and Color
Did you know that light can bend? Help your curious kids learn the important physical properties of light and explore how light adds colors to our world, with this beautiful series on light and color.
Third Grade
Reading
Workbook
Find the Main Idea: Native American Foods
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Find the Main Idea: Native American Foods
Fourth Grade
Reading
Children will discover more about the culinary history of early Americans as they practice practice identifying the main idea and supporting details.
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Find the Main Idea: Native American Foods
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Find the Main Idea: Native American Foods
Children will discover more about the culinary history of early Americans as they practice practice identifying the main idea and supporting details.
Fourth Grade
Reading
Worksheet
Nonfiction Comprehension: St. Johns River, Florida
Worksheet
Nonfiction Comprehension: St. Johns River, Florida
Fourth Grade
Reading
In this reading comprehension worksheet, children will learn about the St. Johns River, the longest river in Florida.
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Nonfiction Comprehension: St. Johns River, Florida
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Nonfiction Comprehension: St. Johns River, Florida
In this reading comprehension worksheet, children will learn about the St. Johns River, the longest river in Florida.
Fourth Grade
Reading
Worksheet
Tracking Important Details: A Look into Marie Curie's Life
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Tracking Important Details: A Look into Marie Curie's Life
Fourth Grade
Reading
This activity guides your readers towards the key details and shows kids how to effectively underline while reading.
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Tracking Important Details: A Look into Marie Curie's Life
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Tracking Important Details: A Look into Marie Curie's Life
This activity guides your readers towards the key details and shows kids how to effectively underline while reading.
Fourth Grade
Reading
Worksheet
Searching for Context Clues & Key Details
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Searching for Context Clues & Key Details
Fourth Grade
Reading
Help your active readers identify key vocabulary and important details with the help of two graphic organizers!
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Searching for Context Clues & Key Details
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Searching for Context Clues & Key Details
Help your active readers identify key vocabulary and important details with the help of two graphic organizers!
Fourth Grade
Reading
Worksheet
Discovering Details
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Discovering Details
Fourth Grade
Reading
Students will identify supporting details, in the form of adverbial phrases, in a nonfiction text excerpt.
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Discovering Details
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Discovering Details
Students will identify supporting details, in the form of adverbial phrases, in a nonfiction text excerpt.
Fourth Grade
Reading
Worksheet
Ideas of The Harlem Renaissance
Worksheet
Ideas of The Harlem Renaissance
Third Grade
Reading
In the worksheet Ideas of the Harlem Renaissance, children learn what this cultural movement was about, as well as some famous artists who emerged at the time.
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Ideas of The Harlem Renaissance
Worksheet
Ideas of The Harlem Renaissance
In the worksheet Ideas of the Harlem Renaissance, children learn what this cultural movement was about, as well as some famous artists who emerged at the time.
Third Grade
Reading
Worksheet
George Washington, a Man of Firsts
Worksheet
George Washington, a Man of Firsts
Third Grade
Reading
Practice reading nonfiction and making connections in a text with this informational worksheet all about George Washington!
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George Washington, a Man of Firsts
Worksheet
George Washington, a Man of Firsts
Practice reading nonfiction and making connections in a text with this informational worksheet all about George Washington!
Third Grade
Reading
Worksheet
Find & Support the Main Idea: The Transcontinental Railroad
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Find & Support the Main Idea: The Transcontinental Railroad
Fourth Grade
Reading
As your students complete this close reading exercise, they will learn about the Transcontinental Railroad while practicing their active reading skills.
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Find & Support the Main Idea: The Transcontinental Railroad
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Find & Support the Main Idea: The Transcontinental Railroad
As your students complete this close reading exercise, they will learn about the Transcontinental Railroad while practicing their active reading skills.
Fourth Grade
Reading
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