Each of these Main Idea Task Cards (print or digital) features a short informational text (nonfiction) passage to help your students master this challenging reading strategy. The 48 cards are divided into two sets of 24 cards each for differentiated learning. SET 1: Includes Topic Sentence - Great for beginners!SET 2: Main Idea is Inferred - More challenging for students!PRINT VERSION:Directions and Suggestions48 Printable Task Cards Color48 Printable Task Cards Black LineCover Cards and 2 Chall

Each of these 24 Summary Task Cards (and Google slides) features a short, nonfiction paragraph with clickable links to audio support in the Google Slides version! Students are challenged to summarize the paragraph in just twelve words or less. By presenting only one paragraph at a time, the often overwhelming task of summarizing becomes much more manageable. In addition, the word count limit will keep students from simply rewriting the entire paragraph. You may want to remind students that they

Teaching main idea and supporting details can be frustrating for teachers and difficult for students to understand. This resource is scaffolded to help all of your students - even your struggling students - better understand main idea and key details. As an added bonus, most of the activities are no prep! This main idea unit starts easy (with activities that make a great introduction for beginners) and gets increasingly more difficult to help students develop a true understanding of the diffe

Dig deeply into the text for reading comprehension and close reading practice with these high-interest, standards-based reading passages written by a published nonfiction children’s author with more than 100 books in print.What's Included?60 Printable passages (Each with 2 levels! 120 passages total.)Printable passages with QR codes for audio supportGoogle Slides digital versionGoogle Slides digital version with audio supportTpT Easel Activity with Audio Support (If you don't want the audio supp

“Finally! A FUN way to review! My kids really liked this last year. Will use again this year!” - Anna C.  At Not So Wimpy Teacher, we know how stressful it can be to help your students prep for standardized testing. It can feel like there’s so much to cover and so little time.  That’s why I created this resource. It is your COMPLETE kit for preparing your students for standardized testing on their reading skills. It has everything you need to help you review the standards for literature and info

How do you get your students enjoy writing? This is a question that I asked myself for years! After being in the classroom for 8 years, I had the idea of giving my students a say in what they would be writing. This idea changed it all!PLEASE TAKE TIME TO VISIT MY DETAILED PREVIEW ABOVE!By offering a variety of topics that they could choose to learn and write about, I found that my students weren't just writing, they were asking to write! I filled my bulletin board with a "writing menu." It allow

Get at least TWO or THREE Assessments for EVERY Common Core Language Arts StandardYou can now use the assessments with ANY state standard. The Common Core Standards version has the standard listed at the top of each page. There is also an additional version where the standard has been removed, so the assessments can be rearranged to work with almost any state standard. *************************************************************************This packet includes a three-page AND one-page assessme

Students love these non-fiction main idea and supporting details reading passages! End of the year activities include Memorial Day and ocean themed reading comprehension passages. Finding the main idea and supporting details has never been easier. Using our main idea graphic organizer to color code nonfiction passages gives students multiple opportunities to practice recognizing text organization. When students can see the organization of a written paragraph, they can more easily identify the ma

This bundle of activities focuses on identifying the main idea and supporting details of various reading passages. Several activities include test prep elements, because main idea questions tend to appear frequently on standardized tests. It is designed to teach upper elementary and middle school students how to analyze a reading passage for its main idea in a way that will keep them engaged.As an added bonus, I created 5-6 days of LESSON PLANS that outline how and when I use each of the include

Are you having a hard time teaching your students how to find the main idea and supporting details of a passage? Many students struggle with this skill. They tend to get confused and caught up in all the little details. These reading passages with graphic organizers are perfect for students to use as they practice finding the main idea and supporting details. After years of trial and error, I have found that this solution works time and time again.These PRINT & DIGITAL main idea practice act

Want to keep your students engaged and learning during December? Here's what on teacher said about my Holidays Around the World for Older Kids: "Very engaging for my 3rd-5th graders, and perfect for the weeks leading up to Christmas break. There are so many resources here that I didn't even get to use all of them in class, but it was great because I could pick and choose what would be most meaningful for my students. I loved the research pages for students to do their own research on a country,

Here's a hands-on, creative way to practice identifying the main idea and detail sentences! This is an engaging activity where your students match 3 details to the main idea. It also makes a creative bulletin board or school hallway display! It can also be used as a novel entry in an interactive notebook!All of the main idea cones are related to ice cream topics. These are the main ideas:Three ice cream flavors are clearly America's favorites.The amount of milkfat determines how an ice cream is

Need a simple-to-use tool to help your students remember the reading comprehension skills and strategies they need to succeed? These 24 reading bookmarks will help students practice reading strategies and skills with questions and sentence frames. Use the reading bookmarks as strategy references or to keep track of reading skills across multiple books or reading comprehension passages.The bookmarks are divided into two categories:★ 17 Reading Skills bookmarks★ 7 Reading Strategies bookmarksEach

Your students will learn about the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Southwest, and West regions of the United States with this bundle of five units.This bundle includes both printable and digital options. If you would like a printable, paper-based unit, check out my Five Regions Unit Bundle, or you can get the digital options only.Each region includes a 6-page informational text packet that can be used as a "textbook chapter" when teaching about the region. While reading the complex text, your stu

NINETY-FIVE original 3rd grade leveled close reading passages and activities that are PERFECT for teaching your students to become masters of close reading. There are seventeen standards-based earning targets in this product. Each learning target has 5 passages specifically dedicated to it except for all of the comparing learning targets because they all have a total of 10 passages so that your students can compare away!Each passage has 2 pages of carefully written and consistent close reading t

Introduce and practice main idea, details, and topics through non-fiction animal/habitat passages. The 14 passages range from 100-120 words and are intended for primary grade classrooms. The digital version of this resource is also included. Uploads work seamlessly with Google Classroom Included in this download… Anchor Charts*Main Idea*Topic*Main Idea Clues*How to Identify the Main IdeaMapping the Main Idea Graphic Organizer14 Habitat and Animal Passages (passage with main idea graphic organiz

This 3rd Grade Spiral Reading resource is perfect for Reading HOMEWORK, Reading MORNING WORK, or a DAILY READING REVIEW! These professionally written, on-level passages and text-dependent questions build in complexity each week, as more skills are introduced. All questions are EDITABLE and easy to differentiate to fit your students' needs.✪ CLICK HERE to see more SUBJECTS & GRADE LEVELS!✪ CLICK HERE to see the DIGITAL VERSION!★★SAVE $$ with these BUNDLES★★3rd Grade Language Arts BUNDLE: Spi

Help students dig deeper into informational reading with these holiday themed close reading passages and comprehension questions. In this product, there are ten nonfiction reading passages based on ten cultures/nations' holiday celebrations. Since we all have students reading on many different reading levels, I've written each passage on three different reading levels to make differentiation a little easier for you. There are also three sets of questions for each set of passages. The first se

Main Idea PowerPoint: This is a step-by-step PowerPoint designed to introduce main idea and supporting details. This 49-slide PowerPoint was designed to accompany my best selling "main idea ice cream cone craftivity", so be sure to check out that product, too! I hope that by using this ice cream cone themed PowerPoint, students will build a meaningful connection in their minds that will always help them remember and understand how to identify the main idea and supporting details!Slides 1-5- Intr

Make Close Reading Easy with this TOOLKIT! It's jam-packed with posters, graphic organizers, discussion starters, writing prompts and plenty of close reading strategies and teaching tips. Check out the preview to see more!These resources will work with any informational (nonfiction) text or passage and can address all of the Common Core RI standards. Use these materials for your entire lesson or supplement the close reading materials you already have. Use them in a variety of ways: individuallyi

This low prep resource contains 3 main idea center activities for you to use in your classroom. These games are an engaging, hands on way to help your students be better able to differentiate between main idea and supporting details - especially in nonfiction / informational text. There is now a digital version for use with Google Slides / Google Classroom!The games can be played independently or with a partner depending on your students' needs.Save over 20% when you buy this as part of my Main

⭐️You're going to love this main idea reading comprehension unit for 2nd & 3rd grade. The included Lexile® leveled close reading passages, question sets, assessments, and anchor charts are perfect for teaching students how to identify the main idea and supporting details in a text. Texts, anchor charts, questions, and assessments are aligned to RI.2.2 & RI.3.2 and focus on developing core main idea skills. ⭐️If you do not use Common Core, this packet is still perfect for teaching main id

These are COMPLETE 400+ pages of Assessments and Teaching Notes for ALL English Language Arts Standards for 3rd Grade. These will cover your entire year! Reading comprehension (literature and informational), writing, language/grammar, fluency, speaking and listening are all included.Use them for more than just assessments. They are a perfect supplement to your English Language Arts Curriculum.·These will work with ANY reading program and allow teachers to conduct a thorough assessment of a stand

✨BEST-SELLER✨ This nonfiction graphic organizer works w/ any type of informational text or nonfiction passage: use it again & again. Students love the non-fiction text activities like the Nonfiction Text Features scavenger hunt & the fun dice Nonfiction Game | Nonfiction Reading response worksheet. Perfect for summarizing nonfiction text, teaching nonfiction reading skills, nonfiction centers, no-prep sub-plans, close reading, teaching nonfiction reading strategies, informational writing