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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Children will love coming up with creative drawings that depict common idioms literally in this engaging grammar worksheet.

Read page 10 of The Nightingale, by Hans Christian Andersen, and find out what will happen to the Emperor!

EL students will practice using sentence frames to write about main idea and details.

This simple acrostic template for Earth Day makes it easy for kids of all abilities to pen a poem about the planet.

Have some fun with the alphabet as you learn all about alliteration! Create an alliteration for every letter of the alphabet.

Use this exercise with your students to create short summaries with transition words.