These easy-to-follow reading workshop lessons will help your students practice identifying the main idea and details in informational texts. They will find the topic, main idea, and key details in nonfiction texts.

This product includes 5 days of reading workshop lessons to teach your students to identify the main idea and details in an informational text.

It includes:

• 5 easy-to-follow mini lesson plans
• A slideshow to walk you through each lesson
• Sample anchor charts
• During reading response sheets
• Suggestions for strategy groups, conferences, and a share
• An end of week assessment with answer key

These lesson plans use the book Mars to teach main idea and details.

Lesson Overview:

• Day 1 - Identify the topic of an informational book
• Day 2 - Determine the main idea of an informational book
• Day 3 - Identify key details and explain how they support the main idea
• Day 4 - Identify the main idea and key details in a paragraph
• Day 5 - Assess the standard

Get reading workshop lessons for every 3rd Grade Common Core reading literature and reading informational texts standard in this bundle, and save 20%!

Learn more about setting up reading workshop in your classroom in this blog post.

*THE ASSESSMENT INCLUDED IN THIS PRODUCT IS ALSO PART OF MY THIRD GRADE READING ASSESSMENTS PRODUCT.*

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