Help your students strengthen their comprehension skills and master one of the most essential literacy standards. Since many students struggle to identify the main idea, this resource provides strategic, direct practice across a multi-paragraph passage. It includes three scaffolded versions of the same text: Reindeer #1 places the main idea in the first sentence; Reindeer #2 moves it to the end; and Reindeer #3 challenges students to use keywords to formulate their own main idea. Students will a