Determine the main idea and supporting details from text. 0501.6.6

Links verified on 9/9/2014

1. Finding the Main Idea
2. Get The Idea - read text to determine the main idea or essential message and identify relevant supporting details and facts
3. Idea Graphic Chart - worksheet - Fill in the supporting sentences that best fits the main idea.
4. Identify Main Idea - [designed for grade 3] learn to identify the main idea
5. Identify Main Idea - [designed for grade 3] practice quiz
6. Main Idea - lesson on main idea of a passage and an activity to print
7. Main Idea - lesson on building blocks of comprehension plus activities to print
8. Main Idea - [designed for grade 3] Read the paragraph and select the main idea.
9. Main Idea - Quia quiz
10. Main Idea - building blocks of comprehension, includes exercises to print
11. Main Idea - The main idea of a paragraph is what all the sentences are about. Read the paragraph and ask, “What’s your point?”
12. Main Idea Activities - a collection of resources at Internet4Classrooms
13. Massachusetts Tests for Educator Licensure - Challenge your students by letting them practice using a reading comprehension test designed for prospective teachers. (This site recommends that you use a printed copy of the page) [This expired link is available through the Wayback Machine Internet Archive. If the page doesn't load quickly click on Impatient? at the bottom right of the page.]
14. Parts of a Newspaper - find what you're looking for in a newspaper, read headlines to predict what articles will be about and where you will find them in the paper, and match pictures with the right captions
15. Reading Comprehension - free reading comprehension worksheets for teachers and parents - includes original stories, poems, essays, and articles
16. Reading Detective - Quia quiz
17. Story Shackles (Linking Students To Written Text) - lesson plan - Story Shackles is an imaginative and stimulating way for students to acquire the ability to retell events of a story or text, sequence the action or happenings in a story, or to simply summarize the plot, main ideas with supporting details, or general information of a story or text
18. Summarizing - review the basics of summarizing, identify main idea statements and detail statements, and use categories to summarize lists
19. What's the Big Idea - solve a riddle by answering questions about the main idea
20. What's the Big Idea? Exercise 1 - Write the common subject for each group of words, or "write a good title for each list." - a worksheet to print, not interactive
21. What's the Big Idea? Exercise 2 - Write the common subject for each group of words, or "write a good title for each list." - a worksheet to print, not interactive
22. What's the Big Idea? Exercise 3 - a bit harder than 1 & 2 - Write the common subject for each group of words, or "write a good title for each list." Then add another example that could be included in that group. Be as specific as you can. [a worksheet to print, not interactive]

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