Main Idea & Supporting Details Activities - Central Idea - Passages, Worksheets
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Teaching main idea and supporting details / key details can be frustrating for teachers and difficult for students to understand. This resource is scaffolded to help all of your students - even your struggling students - better understand main idea and key details. As an added bonus, most of the activities are no prep!
This main idea unit starts easy (with activities that make a great introduction for beginners) and gets increasingly more difficult to help students develop a true understanding of the difference between topic, main idea, and key details. There are a variety of different activities and strategies included, making it easy for you to differentiate based on student needs.
Students will get to practice their main idea skills in both fiction and nonfiction / informational text.
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Each section of this resource addresses a different aspect of main idea / centtral idea that is sometimes confusing for students.
- Topic Vs. Details - This section is designed to help students better understand the difference between the topic and supporting details. This is a necessary skill before students can distinguish between main idea and details. Students will complete several activities, including sorting words into groups and determining what the overall topic is. Students will also complete graphic organizers, thinking about how details are related to each other and to a topic.
- Titles Give Clues to the Main Idea - This section is designed to help students think about how titles can help you figure out the main idea of a passage. Students will read short paragraphs on related topics and think about appropriate titles for each of the paragraphs.
- Details Should Support the Main Idea - This section is designed to help students understand how details in a paragraph should help support the main idea of the paragraph. Students will read many short paragraphs that each have a detail that doesn't support the main idea of the paragraph. Students must figure out which sentence doesn't "belong." As an extension activity, students will read paragraphs, and then add a detail that supports the paragraph.
- Main Idea Vs. Details - This section is designed to help students better understand the difference between main ideas and details. Students use scaffolded graphic organizers to help better understand this difference. Students are given a short paragraph and 4 sentences about the paragraph. They must determine which sentence represents the main idea of the paragraph, and which sentences are details, and fill in a graphic organizer appropriately. Students will also get to practice this skill without the scaffolding.
- Practicing Main Idea in Longer Texts - This section is designed to help students practice what they have learned in longer texts. There are 4 texts, each with an accompanying main idea activity. 2 of the texts have multiple choice questions, all geared towards main idea to help you with your test prep. 2 of the texts have scaffolded graphic organizers for students to fill out about the text. There are 2 fiction and 2 informational texts.
There are also 3 blank graphic organizers that you can use with any text.
These main idea practice worksheets can be used for small groups, assessments/test, center activities, explicit instruction, reading comprehension practice, reading workshop, for special education students, for main idea test prep, for reading stations, and more.
An answer key is included. This central idea resource now includes a digital version for use with Google Slides / Google Classroom!
This directly addresses common core standards: RI 2.2, RI 3.2, RI 4.2 for 2nd grade, 3rd grade, and 4th grade students.
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