Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

How to Find the Main Idea and Supporting Details - Reading Skills for Beginners

Subject Area

English Language Arts

Grade(s)

K, 1, 2

Overview

Help students learn how to find the main idea and supporting details in a text with this fun, engaging animation video.

    English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): KG

    ELA21.K.28

    With prompting and support, use text clues to determine main ideas and make predictions about an ending in a literary text.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:ELA21.K.28

    Vocabulary

    • Text clues
    • Determine
    • Main idea
    • Make predictions
    • Ending
    • Literary text
    • Prompting
    • Support

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • Text clues can help make inferences.
    • The main idea of a literary text.
    • Techniques for predicting the end of a literary text.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    With prompting and support,
    • Identify the main idea in a literary text using text clues.
    • Make predictions about an ending in a literary text using text clues.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • Text clues will help them identify the main idea and make predictions about the end of a story which helps to comprehend the text.
    English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 1

    ELA21.1.21

    Identify the main topic and key details of literary and informational texts.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:ELA21.1.21

    Vocabulary

    • Identify
    • Main topic
    • Key details
    • Literary texts
    • Informational texts

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • Main topic of literary and informational texts.
    • Key details of literary and informational texts.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Identify the main topic of literary and informational texts.
    • Identify key details of literary and informational texts.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • Literary and informational texts have a main idea and supporting details.
    English Language Arts (2021) Grade(s): 2

    ELA21.2.24

    Identify the main idea and supporting details of literary and informational texts.

    Unpacked Content

    UP:ELA21.2.24

    Vocabulary

    • Main idea
    • Supporting details
    • Literary text
    • Informational text

    Knowledge

    Students know:
    • The main idea is the most important idea presented in the text.
    • The supporting details explain the main idea or provide more information about the main idea.

    Skills

    Students are able to:
    • Identify the main idea in literary and informational text.
    • Identify the supporting details in literary and informational text.

    Understanding

    Students understand that:
    • Literary and informational texts have a main idea, or most important message, and supporting details, which provide more information about the main idea.
    • A text usually just has one main idea, but multiple supporting details.
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    CR Resource Type

    Audio/Video

    Resource Provider

    McGraw Hill PreK-12
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