Main Idea, Summarizing, Finding Theme Bundle for Reading Comprehension Practice

Use this reading comprehension bundle with its scaffolded activities to help your students build a solid understanding of main idea and details, summarizing, and finding the theme. The resources break down these difficult skills into step by step chunks to give students a strong foundation. Best of all, the activities are no prep!

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The main idea resource includes:

• 8 activities to help students distinguish between the topic and details
• 4 activities to help students understand how main idea is related to the title
• 36 task cards that help students understand how details should support the main idea
• 7 activities to help students understand the difference between main idea and details
• 4 one page texts with questions/graphic organizers for students to apply what they have learned

There are two summarizing resources, one for summarizing fiction and one for summarizing nonfiction. The summarizing resources EACH include:

• a reading passage with 2 activities to help students learn that summaries should only include information from the passage
• a reading passage with 2 activities to help students learn that summaries should not include your own opinions
• a reading passage with activities to help students understand that summaries should only include the most important information
• a reading passage with activities to help students understand that summaries should not be copied from the text
• a scavenger hunt activity with a reading passage to help students review what they have learned
• a reading passage to help students practice writing their own summary - with a reusable checklist

The summarizing fiction resource also includes activities to help students understand that fiction summarizes should include the problem and solution of a text.

The theme resource includes:

• 4 activities to help students understand that themes aren't stated in the passage
• 3 activities to help students learn that different stories can have the same theme
• 3 activities to help students understand that you don't have to agree with the theme
• 3 activities to help students understand that characters and details from the story support the theme
• 3 activities to help students learn now to distinguish between main idea and theme
• 3 activities to help students understand that a text can have more than one theme
• 3 activities to help students understand that themes apply to real life

The texts to go along with the activities start with short paragraphs, and increasingly move to longer texts.

Use these resources for small group or whole group instruction, review or extra practice, homework, center activities, morning work, and more for your 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade students.

Each of the resources includes answer keys.

The previews show the entire resource so you can more easily decide if these activities will work for you and your 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students.