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

Learning Resource Type

Classroom Resource

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.

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.

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.

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.

CR Resource Type

Audio/Video

Resource Provider

McGraw Hill PreK-12

License Type

Custom
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