Need main idea lesson for an intervention group? This main idea lesson uses pictures, words, and sentences to help students understand how details relate to the main idea. This lesson includes one set of color cards for sorting and modeling, three word sorts, and three sentence sorts. Full directions, printable lesson plan, and editable lesson plan (with Google Slides) are included. This lesson is great for students who are struggling to understand and identify main idea in text.

This Main Idea Lesson includes:

• Picture sort for modeling (color and black and white version)
• 3 word sorts
• 3 sentence sorts
• Printable lesson plan
• Editable lesson plan (With Google Slides)

Key Features of Main Idea Lesson:

• Relates main idea to categories
• Helps students understand categories by using pictures and words before sentences
• Simplifies main idea for struggling upper elementary students

Other great resources you might need:

• Worksheets on Main Idea
• Sentences with Context Clues Activities
• Context Clues PowerPoint Lesson
• Prefix Crossword Puzzles

Includes 9 printable pages.

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