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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Develop reading comprehension with this video game passage. Ask your students to read the excerpt, then answer questions about the main ideas and details.

Transition words introduce new ideas and connect key elements in a story. In this exercise, your students will identify and use transition words in a series of sentences.

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.

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

Choices are made every day—some are big, some are small, but all can impact ourselves and others! In the worksheet Tough Choices Letter, your child will brainstorm ideas that could improve the lives of others.

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.

n this engaging worksheet, children will research "Earth Guardians" and brainstorm a list of actions they can take to help reverse the impacts of climate change. Then learners will commit to one of their ideas and put it into action!

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.

Adults can learn from the fresh and unique way young people see, feel, and experience the world. With the help of this worksheet and related activity—Adults Can Learn From Kids—your child will create an origami box filled with their ideas!