Main Idea and Details Comprehension Skills Unit

Description

This resource gives students the tools they need to identify details and main idea. Students practice with a hands-on activity in groups which is used to build an anchor chart, participate in discussions during a modeled lesson, get practice with differentiated task cards, and apply their learning with reading responses and a graphic organizer. Hands-on materials make learning stick!

Included in this product…

• Teacher Tips Page: the gradual release model so strategies stick
• Printable poster
• Mentor text list and tips for using mentor texts
• Hands on introduction activity directions: What’s the Big Idea?
• Cards and handout for the What’s the Big Idea? activity
• Anchor chart and materials for the chart to use with the hands-on activity
• Guided Practice: a complete text to use during read aloud or shared reading to introduce the skill of main idea and details with a think-aloud. Includes guiding questions for using the strategy.
• Main Idea Task Cards: 3 cards at each level, 3 different levels
• Reading response sheet with sentence starters (2 versions)
• Graphic organizers: 2 versions
• Strategy Bookmarks