Main Idea & Supporting Key Details Task Cards Passages Game Reading Centers ELA

Do your students struggle with finding the main idea in a reading passage? This main idea and supporting key details task cards game is the perfect addition to your classroom reading centers to support your students in becoming confident readers! Finding the main idea and supporting details of a reading passage can be a difficult skill to learn, but this game makes practice much more fun and enjoyable!

This main idea reading center game comes with a colorful game board and 30 task cards for practicing main idea.  Each of these main idea task cards consists of a short high-interest passage to read and a multiple-choice question which requires students to find the main idea. Kids love that these main idea and supporting details passages are all about weird and interesting food facts.

Included with this main idea board game for reading centers:

✅ Instructions for play

✅ Game board

✅ 30 paragraph game cards with a multiple-choice question

✅ Answers on the backs of the cards

These main idea task cards support 3rd and 4th grade Common Core standard RI.2: Determine the main idea of a text.

Using this main idea reading center game in your classroom is EASY! 

⭐️ It can be played in small groups of 2-4 students.

⭐️ It works well for a pair/group activity.

⭐️ It is PERFECT for literacy or reading centers. 

⭐️ It can be used as a teacher-led activity when working with small groups.  

⭐️ It can even be played as a whole class game with students divided into teams.

Because reading center games are naturally more engaging, they’re truly great to assign to students to play when teachers need time to work with 1-on-1 or with a small group of students.

Reasons to LOVE this main idea reading comprehension strategy game:

❤️ Your students will be excited to practice finding the main idea.  

❤️ Your students will love reading about the weird food facts in these high-interest passages.

❤️ You can quickly prepare this reading comprehension strategy game for your reading centers!

✅ Check out the preview to see a sample of this main idea game.

Teachers like you love these main idea and supporting details games!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Such a fun game working on main idea skills.  I loved the multiple choices on the game cards to help students narrow down the main ideas.  Thank you!” - Jacques’s Junction 

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “I love your reading games! They are a great way to engage my students and still practice skills. Great for my intervention groups.” - McKenzie H. 

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “My students loved playing this game to work on main idea. It has been a great 1:1 and also small group activity in my resource room. My students love games so this was a wonderful way to engage them while checking their level of understanding.” - Karen A.

NEW! Need a SELF-GRADING, DIGITAL version to use instead? The passages and questions from this game are also in my Main Idea Assessments Pack for Google Forms.

Think ahead and save $$ by buying this game as part of this discounted Reading Comprehension Strategies and Skills Games Bundle!

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• Drawing Conclusions Board Game
• Summarizing Fiction Texts Board Game
• Summarizing Non-Fiction Texts Board Game
• Making Inferences Board Game
• Theme Board Game

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