Main idea middle school

Games and centers to help your 3rd grade, 4th grade, and 5th grade students practice main idea. These low prep games are designed to help your students differentiate between main idea and details, as well as to help them think about how details support the main idea. Includes a matching game, mazes, and a sort to make main idea more engaging for your upper elementary students. #mainidea #reading #thirdgrade

These nine main idea strategies will help your students successfully master this important reading skill. The Teacher Next Door shares her favorite main idea strategies for teachers of upper elementary students.

Students read a passage from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and write the main idea and supporting ideas.

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My most popular post is teaching about Main Idea vs. Theme together. It has changed how students think about main idea and theme statements.

Grab these free main idea passages on task cards - perfect for helping children in second, third, and fourth grade master this challenging skill!

Are you looking for new ways to teach main idea to your upper elementary students? These main idea strategies are a fun way to help students identify the main idea. In this post, I share two main idea activities. Students can play a main idea game show which is a fun whole class game to practice the main idea. Students get to read a comprehension passage and then answer main idea questions. It is a ton of fun and can be played during readers workshop, Daily 5 or as an early finishers…

3rd - 4th Grade Halloween Reading Comprehension Passages. CLICK HERE for our 2nd Grade version This resource includes graphic organizers and Main Idea Short Reading Comprehension Passages to help teach Main Idea and Details in an easy, fun way. Informational text can be challenging for students, but our engaging graphic organizers and high-interest passages make these essential skills easier to grasp. What makes our "Main Idea and Detail Product" special? Each passage is carefully crafted to…

Looking for ways to spice up your reading comprehension activities with your middle school students? Check out these fun and engaging reading comprehension activities and worksheets for your sixth grade, seventh grade, and eighth grade students. Your 5th grade, 6th grade, and 7th grade students will benefit from the context clues, theme, making inferences, and main idea practice in these ELA worksheets. These activities and Language Arts lessons are just right for students in grades 5, 6…

Because of the difficulty that many students have with identifying main idea, much practice is needed throughout the school year and this fun main idea