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Main Idea Online Game (Grades 2-5) Main Idea Game – Read small literature and informational text passages.  Choose the main idea and if you get it right you get to pick three boxes and play a hangman type word game. Best for grades 2,3,4, and 5. Key Ideas and Details – Literature and Informational Text…

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Main Idea Worksheets (Grades 1 – 4) Main Idea Worksheets – Free printable worksheets covering Common Core standards within Key Ideas and Details Literature and Informational Text. Best for grades 1, 2, 3, or 4. Key Ideas and Details – Literature and Informational Text CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.1.1 Ask and answer questions about key details in a text.…

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Try This With Your Students – The Main Idea Game Pdf Help your students ENJOY learning to find the main idea and supporting points in key texts. Suited for grades 2-8. Show me the game! How Does The Main Idea Classroom Activity Work? Arrange the story blocks and enter the tomb Identify key information and…

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Common Core Reading Lessons: Main Idea The big idea in a text that tells what the text is mostly about. Main Idea Lessons – Covers kindergarten through sixth grade.  Examples: Identify and describe what a book is mainly about using the title, text, and pictures. Identify and describe the main idea of a nonfiction book…

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Main Idea Worksheets: Nonfiction (Grades 5-12) Main Idea Worksheets – Finding the main idea for nonfiction texts. Upper grades 5-12.  Includes a main idea lesson – An animated PowerPoint slideshow explaining what main idea is and how one may go about identifying it. This concise presentation includes five practice problems after the lesson. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.4.2 –…

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