Reading Skills: Main Idea for Middle School Students
These sites focus on the reading comprehension skills of identifying the main idea and supporting details of a text and are geared for middle school-aged students. There are lesson plans, online quizzes, and printable worksheets for practicing reading comprehension skills. Includes a link to eThemes Resource: Reading Skills: Main Idea and Supporting Details.
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Identify the Main Idea: Activities
Choose from a list of 13 main idea activities geared toward the 7th grade level. NOTE: This site includes ads.
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QUIA: Reading: Finding the Main Idea
This interactive quiz allows students to practice identifying the main idea in a passage.
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Main Idea Activities for Middle School Students
This article features four activities you can use with your students to practice identifying the main idea of a story or paragraph. NOTE: This site includes ads.
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Enchanted Learning: Main Idea Graphic Organizers
Choose from among a number of graphic organizers specifically tailored to exploring the main idea and supporting details of a piece of writing; includes organizers for: paragraph structure, persuasive arguments, star diagrams, circle diagrams, square diagrams, flower petal diagrams, oval diagrams, and fishbone diagrams. NOTE: This site includes ads.
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How to Find the Main Idea in a Paragraph
This article walks students through the five main ways to determine the main idea for a passage. NOTE: This site includes ads.
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Reading: Getting the Main Point
This article shares useful tips for practicing locating the main idea by using articles from your local newspaper. NOTE: This site includes ads.
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Middle School Reading Task Cards
These task cards assist middle school students with basic reading tasks, such as main idea; patterns of organization; character & plot development; point of view; setting, conflict resolution, tone, validity & accuracy of information; cause/effect; vocabulary/context clues; compare/contrast; organization, interpretation & synthesis of information; and author's purpose/point of view.
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Mysteries in the Middle: Reading Strategies for Middle School Students
This 20-page PDF includes activities for the following reading strategies: use of graphic organizers, identifying the main idea, context clues, visualization, high interest reading survey, timed reading races, summarizing/synthesizing and more.
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The Middle School High Five: Strategies Can Triumph
This article explores explores five strategies guaranteed to improve reading comprehension.
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READWRITETHINK: Scaling Back to Essentials: Scaffolding Summarization with Fishbone Mapping Lesson
This lesson has students complete fishbone maps that highlight the main ideas and relevant details from a text.
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READWRITETHINK: Power Notes - Reading Strategy
This strategy teaches students an outlining technique to help them differentiate between main ideas and details in their reading and writing.
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BrainPOP: Main Idea Video
Review the idea of identifying the main idea with your students using this informative video. NOTE: This site requires a subscription for full access.
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eThemes Resource: Reading Skills: Main Idea and Supporting Details
These sites focus on the reading comprehension skills of finding main ideas and supporting details. There are lesson plans, online quizzes, and printable worksheets for practicing reading comprehension skills. There are links to eThemes Resources on Teaching Tips: Reading Comprehension Strategies, Reading Skills: Context Clues, Reading Skills: Sight Words, Reading Skills: Inference for Elementary School Students, and Reading Strategies for Elementary Students.
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