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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: Summary Writing with Big Ideas.

Glossary: Summary Writing with Big Ideas

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

Glossary: 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

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

Vocabulary Cards: Differentiating Main Ideas from Details

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

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 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

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

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

Fractions can be challenging when taught in an abstract way. That’s why this unit invites learners to engage with fractions and mixed numbers in very visual and concrete ways using number lines, tape diagrams and area models. Students will learn different strategies to practice identifying and generating equivalent fractions.

Fractions 3

Help your EL students identify big ideas before they write short summaries.

Big Idea Summary

Integrate the standard algorithm with place value ideas in this worksheet about division.

Division: Listing Multiples

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

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

Frame Your Essay

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

Describe in Pairs

Use this worksheet to get your students discussing decimal products and the rationale for their ideas.

Estimating Decimal Products

If your child needs help understanding big ideas and concepts, have her tackle this helpful reading comprehension worksheet.

Fictional Character Development

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

PEEL Writing Strategy Handout

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

Find the Main Idea: Grow a Salsa Garden! 

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

PEEL Paragraph Graphic Organizer

Instruct students on the intricacies of idea generation and writing organization!

Daily 6-Trait Writing, Grade 5: Ideas and Organization

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

Informative Essay: Idea Map

In this activity, your child will reflect on how adults can learn from kids. They will watch a TED Talk presented by a 12-year-old girl about the power of young people’s ideas and teachings, and they will generate some of their own unique ideas.

Adults Can Learn From Kids

This writing activity help give your child ideas for personal essays, important thoughts, and positive feelings throughout the holiday season.

Be Grateful

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

Transition Word Hunt

Students will cite stanzas from beginning, middle, and ending portions of their poetry readings and share thoughts, feelings, and ideas about the text.

Poetry Reflections Reading Log

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

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