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

Linking Up Ideas

Students can have a love affair with fiction while details of the genre can go unnoticed! Using this lesson, your students look under the hood of their favorite fiction by analyzing texts across common themes and topics that hook readers.

Fiction Investigations: Topics and Themes Between Texts

Help your EL students will practice differentiating between big ideas and details.

Summary Writing: Big Ideas vs. Details

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Differentiating Main Ideas from Details.

Glossary: Differentiating Main Ideas from Details

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Summary Writing with Big Ideas.

Glossary: Summary Writing with Big Ideas

Give your students a chance to share some interesting anecdotes with this simple lesson. By brainstorming ideas about past experiences, young writers will learn to develop their own personal narratives.

Narrative Writing: Seed Ideas

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Differentiating Main Ideas from Details.

Vocabulary Cards: Differentiating Main Ideas from Details

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Summary Writing with Big Ideas.

Vocabulary Cards: Summary Writing with Big Ideas

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.

Ideas of The Harlem Renaissance

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

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.

Linking Ideas with Transition Words

Before students can respond to literature critically, they must have a strong grasp of big ideas and summary writing. Support your ELs in these foundational reading skills by introducing a three-sentence paragraph frame for summary writing.

Summary Writing with Big Ideas

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

Identifying Key Ideas with Repeated Words and Phrases

Students will note features of theme between two fiction texts and summarize their analysis.

Common Topics Between Fiction Texts

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

Geometry is everywhere! Lines, line segments, and points are all around. In this lesson, your students will learn about important aspects of geometry.

Geometric Ideas

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!

No need to knock on wood, this book just takes a page from common superstitions to give kids great writing practice! They can consider some origins as they read and write about different beliefs.

Superstitions: Ideas for Writing

This well-rounded quiz covers a range of vocabulary topics, from alphabetical order and root words to synonyms and antonyms.

Vocabulary Practice: Alphabetizing, Synonyms, and More

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

Frame Your Essay

From plural nouns to pronouns to proper nouns, this review sheet covers different topics that your child might need to review.

Noun Practice

Students will sort sentences into topics and then write paragraphs to help them understand the organizational structure of writing.

Your New Pet Dragon: Organizing Paragraphs 

This lesson walks students through the first few steps of crafting a personal narrative. Writers will start by going through a process to select an idea to write about,  then begin to craft a hook that invites readers into their story.  

Ideas and Hooks: Personal Narrative

Practice creating titles, headings, and subheadings using fun topics &mdash;&nbsp;then come up with a topic of your own.

Titles, Headings, and Subheadings: Exercise

Use this lesson to help your ELs understand main idea and supporting details in the context of sentences and paragraphs. It can be a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson to the Power Reading lesson.

Differentiating Main Ideas from Details

This worksheet focuses on finding details within a nonfiction text. First students will read a short paragraph, then they'll answer questions using words from the text before rewording their answers to make them unique.

Movies and Main Ideas

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

Informational Writing: Linking Ideas

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

Great Writing Starts with Golden Ideas

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

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