Give your students the opportunity to practice combining ideas using transition words and conjunctions.

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

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.

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.

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

The use of transition words helps make writing smooth and connected. Use this exercise with your students to teach them to use linking words to connect ideas within their writing.

Use this resource to give your students practice identifying key ideas by looking for repeated words and phrases in a text.

Children read six short passages and draw a conclusion about each one based on context clues.

Use this graphic organizer to help guide your students through the process of drawing inferences.

Young writers expand their transition word lexicon in this comprehensive three-page worksheet.

Use this worksheet as a tool to assist your young writers in selecting the perfect idea for their narrative.

In this worksheet, children explore what it means to be aware of their emotions, drawing inspiration from the turtle.

Introduce students to this graphic organizer to help them outline their ideas for an essay of their own.

With a dictionary, kids will use the different definitions of "right" in sentences of their own and illustrate its different meanings by drawing pictures.

Practice comparing and contrasting scary stories using conjunctions to connect ideas.

Guide students in learning about supporting their ideas with textual evidence.

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.

In this grammar worksheet, learners will enjoy writing what each idiom means figuratively, then drawing a picture to illustrate its meaning.

By writing the story themselves, kids can learn to identify larger concepts and ideas in writing.

This prewriting exercise will help your writers shape their topic and start to generate support ideas.

Students will use this worksheet to write about their thinking as they discuss their ideas!

Children read about Ada Lovelace, whose ideas are still used in computing today, in this biography worksheet.

Dig into main ideas and details as you read about salsa gardens in this engaging worksheet!

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

This exercise helps students pre-write their ideas in an organized way when faced with an on-demand writing prompt.

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

With this worksheet, your students will connect the key ideas of this nonfiction text and identify the cause and effect relationships.

This worksheet will help your writers begin to craft their essay by walking them, step-by-step, through paragraph writing and structuring their ideas.

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.

Get your students to ask, “Why did that happen?” Support them as they make connections between key ideas in a nonfiction text about thunderstorms.