Learning Under Sail

This bundle of Activities for Main Idea has everything you need to help your students develop an understanding of main idea and supporting details. Each activity has differentiated stages to help students build on their understanding of main idea. There are multiple opportunities for guided and independent practice. These main idea activities are great support for your on-level and struggling students. These Activities For Main Idea Include:Details and Main Idea PowerPoint Lesson - 42 slidesWor

Use this context clue lesson to introduce context clues, identify the 5 types of context clues, and practice using context clues. The first 5 slides are an introduction to context clues, what they are, and how to use them. The next 11 slides describe each of the 5 types of context clues - synonym clues, antonym clues, example clues, definition clues, and inference clues - with examples of each type of clues. The next section has 15 slides of guided practice where the class can identify the type

Need a resource that you can use throughout the year to teach and review prefixes and suffixes? Use this prefix and suffix lesson in its entirety or in small chunks. The PowerPoint is divided into three sections: Prefixes, Suffixes, and Prefixes and Suffixes combined. In the first two sections, the beginning of the lessons explicitly teach the meaning of a prefix or suffix, how it changes the meaning of a word, and how to identify if a word has a prefix or suffix. The third section is a review t

This details and main idea PowerPoint is a great introduction or intervention for students learning about main idea. The lesson begins by introducing details as pictures and analyzing what the pictures have in common. Once the class has identified what the pictures have in common, they have identified the main idea. By introducing main idea with pictures, students develop a solid understanding of main idea as, "the big idea." The lesson then progresses to introduce main idea and details graphic