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Preschool - 3rd Grade Main Idea Worksheets : Page 2

Maximize what your students learn from reading nonfiction by having them fill out a KWL chart before and after reading.

Nonfiction KWL Chart

Use this resource to give your students practice identifying key ideas by looking for repeated words and phrases in a text.

Identifying Key Ideas with Repeated Words and Phrases

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.

Ideas of The Harlem Renaissance

Engage your students with discussion questions as they read the third part of Katherine Applegate&rsquo;s <em>The One and Only Ivan</em>.

Novel Study: The One and Only Ivan: Discussion Guide #3

Important Supporting Details: The Battles of Lexington and Concord

Help your second grade students identify the author’s purpose as they answer questions about a nonfiction text.

Finding the Purpose

After students read informational books, have them share and connect their learning by filling out this handy concept map. When they're done, students will have a fun visual representation of what they've learned.

Main Topic Map

This worksheet focuses on creating a title for a list of details.

The Topic of Details

Learn all about the interesting world of the whale while practicing fluency and reading comprehension skills using this helpful nonfiction reading worksheet.

Interesting Animals: Whales

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Describing Our Homes.

Vocabulary Cards: Describing Our Homes

We all want to learn new skills! This worksheet engages students in thinking about what they’d like to learn to do or make, all while learning about nonfiction texts.

Teach Me How To...

In this language arts worksheet, students read a nonfiction text then represent what they read by creating a helpful chart.

Comprehension Chart

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Main Idea or Topic? You Decide!

Glossary: Main Idea or Topic? You Decide!

This worksheet teaches students to locate key ideas, provide evidence, and make connections in nonfiction texts.

Connections, Evidence, Oh My!

This worksheet helps students identify and make connections between key ideas in nonfiction readings.

Idea Connector

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Main Idea or Topic? You Decide!

Vocabulary Cards: Main Idea or Topic? You Decide!

This one page printable features the Hanukkah story for kids in a very short version.

Story of Hanukkah for Children

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson Plan: Main Topic.

Vocabulary Cards: Main Topic

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 glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Unknown Words.

Glossary: Unknown Words

Engage students in reading before they even start! Students prepare for reading a nonfiction text by looking at the pictures in the book and answering a series of questions that get them thinking about what they already know about the topic.

Activate That Background Knowledge

This worksheet offers helpful preparation for students as they learn to become intentional, careful readers of nonfiction.

Brainstorm Before Reading

Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Sorting & Describing Books.

Vocabulary Cards: Sorting & Describing Books

The worksheet provides a tool for learners to gather and organize key information about civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Legacy Graphic Organizer

Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Sorting & Describing Books.

Glossary: Sorting & Describing Books

When reading nonfiction books, it’s important to understand the meaning of related vocabulary words. In this activity, students identify sentences that include key vocabulary. When they're done they'll hold the key to reading success!

Vocabulary is the Key!

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

Have students record questions on sticky notes as they are reading, then they'll compile them all on this helpful worksheet before tracking down and recording their answers.

Question Tracker

It's fun to share interesting facts with others! Get the fun started with this top five list.

Super Interesting Nonfiction!

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