Main Idea and Supporting Details Worksheets. Reading Comprehension Strategies

This ELA bundle is designed to help 5th and 6th graders improve their understanding of the main idea and supporting details as reading comprehension strategies. This resource focuses on identifying the main idea and finding supporting details from an interesting selection of informational texts (nonfiction) and few fiction texts in the form of short paragraphs.

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To keep students engaged, each worksheet has 10 paragraphs and 10 multiple choice questions (1 question per paragraph). There are 14 Worksheets and 140 Multiple choice questions as the following:

A. Main Idea: 8 Worksheets, 80 Multiple choice questions

B. Supporting Details: 6 Worksheets, 60 Multiple Choice questions

The questions in this resource start easy, then gradually more difficult to help students improve their understanding of these reading comprehension skills through different passages.

This resource is ideal to be used for reading comprehension practice, review, small group assignments, homework, assessments, test prep, and more.

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3.1 ↪️ NONFICTION READING PASSAGES ↩️

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