Identifying the Main Idea in Fiction Printable Worksheets

This main idea worksheet guides your child through reading comprehension practice. Download today to get started!

This short nonfiction text will teach students about the ocean, and includes questions to help students identify the author’s point of view and purpose for writing the text by focusing on important vocabulary words that support the main idea.

This exercise gives your student practice identifying a main idea and supporting details in short texts.

Teachers can use this general organizer template for main idea and details, pre-writing, word analysis, brain dumps, concept mapping, background knowledge collection, and more.

Kids will learn about sharks as they read this short and informative worksheet.

The main idea is the most important idea in a paragraph. With this worksheet, students will read the paragraphs carefully then circle the statement that best fits the paragraph's main idea.

As your students complete this reading comprehension exercise, they will learn about their lungs while practicing active reading skills.

Use this graphic organizer to help students identify and record the main idea and details of a text.

Kids show off their reading comprehension skills with this language arts worksheet.

With this helpful resource, your students will use a graphic organizer to record the main idea and supporting details of a short text.

Students will identify the main idea and supporting details in a short nonfiction text.

Ever wonder why we hunt for Easter eggs? Discover how this spring holiday was started with this interesting look at the history of Easter.

Children learn about the moon, then practice finding and writing the main idea, in this literacy worksheet.

This interesting and informative text about the ocean can be used to help students learn how to find the main idea and key details in a nonfiction text!

Unwrap the history behind a spooky Halloween favorite: mummies! With this reading worksheet, your child will learn all about mummies.

Kids put their reading comprehension skills to work as they write out the main idea and come up with their own concluding sentence for this paragraph.

Reading comprehension strategies, such as identifying the main idea, help students focus on how to determine what the author is trying to say.

In the worksheet The History of African American Spirituals, children read about how African Americans used spirituals during different moments in history, starting from their enslavement to the civil rights movement.

Reading a short passage is a great way to get kids thinking about the main idea and its supporting details.

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

In this worksheet, students will read two different passages about the platypus. Kids will compare and contrast the passages, and identify the main ideas.

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

In this exercise, students will practice an active reading strategy while building their vocabulary!

Set students up for success when reading nonfiction by having them brainstorm what they already know about a topic. Students will use this simple graphic organizer to record things they know and want to know before diving into their book to learn more.

Children learn about Madam C.J. Walker, the first woman to become a self-made millionaire in the United States, in this Finding the Main Idea worksheet.