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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!

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

Frame Your Essay

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 

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

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. 

Strategic School Persuasion

Help students learn how to read passages with multiple main ideas and differentiate between main ideas and supporting details by creating a graphic organizer with proof from the text.

Power Reading

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

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

Finish the Mystery

Help students organize their ideas and structure their written responses with the PEEL strategy!

PEEL Writing Strategy Handout

Help students organize their ideas and structure their paragraph responses with this PEEL graphic organizer!

PEEL Paragraph Graphic Organizer

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

Household Chores: Opinion Writing Exercise

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

Informative Essay: Idea Map

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

Students will use real nonfiction texts to search for transition words and then consider how they are used to connect ideas.

Transition Word Hunt

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

Write Your Essay

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

Help your students learn how to move smoothly between ideas and paragraphs using transition words and phrases. Young writers will use real texts as mentors as they study how authors use words to transition between ideas and support their claims. As a result, they will have a word bank to use in their own writing. 

Transition Word Hunter

Support discussions about main ideas and summarization with these helpful language frames. This worksheet will help your students organize their thoughts and information from a nonfiction paragraph or text.

Language Frames: Nonfiction Summary

Get to the point with this worksheet about the main idea and how supporting details help it make sense.

What's It All About? Main Ideas and Supporting Details

The hardest part of writing an essay can be the first few steps. This lesson and accompanying graphic organizers will help students map out their ideas and practice crafting paragraphs. With this support, your writers will be off and running! 

Calling All Nonfiction Writers!

This prewriting activity walks students through making an outline of a narrative essay, from the central ideas to the important details.

Narrative Structure: Prewriting

Informational texts isn't just found in textbooks. In this reading lesson, kids will examine the writing of a middle school student and use it to learn more about main ideas and supporting details.

Reading to Find the Main Idea and Details

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

Students will look at a sample essay and try to pick out the kind of details and big ideas that make an informative essay tick.

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