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Main Idea
This section includes both interactive and printable activities designed to pinpoint main idea recognition. Use the filters on the left side of the page to isolate activities by grade level and format (online and printable). These are great practice for standardized tests.
Popcorn Reading Comprehension (Main Idea Focus)- Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions. Questions focus on main event. It gives immediate feedback.
Jackie Robinson Reading Comprehension - Main Idea Focus
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions. It focuses on main idea.
Boston Tea Party Reading Comprehension - Main Idea Focus - Online
Description: This Revolutionary War/American Revolution resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
Lewis and Clark Reading Comprehension - Main Idea Focus
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions.
Lewis and Clark Reading Comprehension - Main Idea Focus - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
Amazon Rainforest Reading Comprehension (Main Idea Focus) - Online
Description: This resource includes a reading passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
Christopher Columbus Reading Comprehension Main Idea Focus - Online
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
Egyptian Pyramids Reading Comprehension - Online - Main Idea Focus
Description: This resource includes a historical passage and five multiple choice questions.
George Washington Reading Comprehension Main Idea Focus - Online
Description: This resource includes a reading passage and five multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback.
Martin Luther King - Main Idea and Supporting Details
Description: This fun activity requires students to categorize the supporting details with the correct main ideas (headings). Then, students must order the sentences properly.
Phillis Wheatley Main Idea and Supporting Detail Sentences - Printable
Description: This activity requires students to group supporting detail sentences under one of three different main ideas. There are seven total sentences.
Jackie Robinson Main Idea and Supporting Details - Printable
Description: This activity requires students to group supporting detail sentences under one of three different main ideas. There are seven total sentences.
Alexander Hamilton Main Idea and Supporting Sentences
Description: This activity requires students to group supporting detail sentences under one of three different main ideas. There are eight total sentences.
Amelia Earhart Main Idea and Supporting Sentences
Description: This activity requires students to group supporting detail sentences under one of three different main ideas. There are nine total sentences.
Roberto Clemente Main Idea and Supporting Detail Sentences
Description: This activity requires students to group supporting detail sentences under one of three different main ideas. There are nine total sentences.
Michael Jordan Main Idea and Supporting Detail Sentences
Description: This activity requires students to group supporting detail sentences under one of three different main ideas. There are eight total sentences.
Ferdinand Magellan - Main Idea and Supporting Sentences
Description: Below are three headings at the beginnings of paragraphs. Below the chart are the associated supporting detail sentences. Which sentences would appear under which heading? Use the numbers before the sentences so you don’t have to write the entire sentence. Order matters!
United States Coast Guard - Main Idea Analysis - Printable
Description: This is a companion activity to our United States Coast Guard article.
Navy Seals - Main Idea Analysis - Printable
Description: This is a companion activity to our Navy Seals article.
Navajo Code Talkers - Main Idea Analysis - Printable
Description: This is a companion activity to our Navajo Code Talkers article. This activity requires students to extract the main ideas from various blocks of text.
Ann Dunwoody - Main Idea and Facts - Printable
Description: This is a companion activity to our Anne Dunwoody article. This activity requires students to extract eight facts from the article as well as the main idea.
Purple Heart - Main Idea and Details
Description: This is a companion activity to our Purple Heart article. This activity requires students to read the article to identify the main idea with four supporting details.
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