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This critical thinking worksheet, part of our upcoming A Day in the Life of the President workbook, challenges kids to plain their own campaign tour!

The Campaign Trail

Help your student practice story organization with this exercise, where they'll identify the supporting details that properly support the main idea.

What is the Main Idea

Children read about the weather as they identify supporting details in this science and literacy worksheet.

Identify Supporting Details: The Weather 

Children read about the sun as they identify supporting details in this science and literacy worksheet.

Identify Supporting Details: The Sun

This exercise gives your students practice using a graphic organizer to record the main idea and supporting details of a short text.

Main Idea: The Wright Brothers

Help your class grasp the concept of &quot;main idea&quot; with this fun, hands-on lesson. Students will dive into mystery bags full of supportive detail clues to determine the main idea of each bag.

Main Idea: It's in the Bag!

This worksheet teaches first graders to identify the main idea and supporting details by arranging the sample sentences provided.

Cut and Paste the Main Idea: Mother Cats

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

Get students curious about reading with these activities designed to support comprehension. This lesson plan can be used alone or with the Main Ideas and Details lesson plan.

Putting it Together to Find the Main Idea

Help your third grader stretch their writing muscles by selecting sentences that support a main idea, then penning a few of their own.

Writing Workout: Supporting the Main Idea

Practice comparing two nonfiction texts in this reading comprehension worksheet!&nbsp;

Comparing Two Nonfiction Texts: The Influence of Water

Important Supporting Details: The Battles of Lexington and Concord

This worksheet challenges first graders to find out the main idea of the passage.

Main Idea: Farmers

This worksheet uses the shape of the sun to teach kids how supporting details come out of the main idea of a text like rays.

Sun Notetaking

Use this resource with your students to practice picking out the most important details to support a main idea. Students will read about an significant Native American tribe and determine the most important information in the text.

Important Supporting Details: Cherokee

Need a promotion? Then have your students participate in a writing lesson that will have them voting for you! Give students the opportunity to place teachers in the spotlight, as they persuade others why teachers make the best presidents.

My Teacher for President!

Young writers will review the basic structure of an informative essay, including the topic sentence, supporting details, and a conclusion, as they complete this graphic organizer.

Informational Writing Graphic Organizer

This colorful worksheet will help kindergarteners develop ideas for persuasive writing about their favorite desserts. The worksheet includes prompts like "I think" and "it is the best because."

Tell Me Why

In writing, supporting the main idea with details is a skill your child should learn early on. Your second grader will fill in the details about a best friend!

Supporting Details: Who is Your Best Friend?

Take your students to a magical place by having them read stories such as "The Ugly Duckling" and "Rumpelstiltskin." They can read these magical stories and figure out the main idea and details in them!

Main Ideas and Details

Students will practice identifying the supporting details for three different main idea statements.

Adding Relevant Supporting Details

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Understanding Main Ideas and Supporting Details.

Glossary: Understanding Main Ideas and Supporting Details

Use these vocabulary flashcards with the EL Support Lesson: Understanding Main Ideas and Supporting Details.

Vocabulary Cards: Understanding Main Ideas and Supporting Details

In this lesson, students will practice "reading" pictures. They will look at the details in pictures in order to make predictions about what happens in a text. This lesson can be used alone or with the Predicting Pictures lesson plan.

Reading Pictures

In this worksheet, learners will practice planning and writing a compelling persuasive paragraph on the topic of social media.

Write a Persuasive Paragraph: Social Media 

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!

This set of picture cards can help students to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details.

Main Topic Cards

Give your students a chance to strengthen their reading comprehension skills by identifying the main topic and supporting details in a nonfiction text.

Main Topic Worksheet

Use this lesson to help your students learn how to find the main idea and details in a nonfiction text using a graphic organizer for support. 

Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction Text

Encourage your writers to use this graphic organizer worksheet when writing an informative essay. Fill in the bubbles for topic, main ideas, and supporting details.

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