Main idea and key details

• The main idea is the most important idea from a paragraph, passage, or article. • Details are small pieces of information that tell more about the main idea.

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Main topic and key details of informational text can be difficult concepts for students to grasp. Based on what I was noticing when teaching this concept to my students, I decided to create a product to help my students with identifying the main topic and key details of text in an engaging way. I created a pack of informational passages where students read the passage, then cut and paste the main topic and key details. These passages are high interest and engaging. My students have loved…

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Finding the main idea in a paragraph can be hard for students to understand. I finally know where I should have started when teaching it!

Comprehension is always a hard skill to teach, especially in first grade. Here are some tips to teaching main idea in your primary classroom.

Main Idea Anchor Chart

Teaching main topic and key details is an essential literacy skill for first and second graders. Click the pin to check on these engaging ideas for hands-on activities, classroom transformation, and no prep printables, that are included in this post. These are some of the most engaging, high interest ways to teach main topic and key details to your elementary students!

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Last week, we spent a lot of time on Main Idea. My class needed some practice with sorting and classifying before I could begin to introduce the main idea. So I began by placing several objects in a b