Main topic and key details first grade

I’m writing a blog post about how to teach your students to identify the main topic and key details during reading. Keep reading for instructional practices,

How do you feel when you hear the words main idea or main topic? Do you cringe or do you get excited? If I’m being honest, I used to completely tense up when this unit was up next because it’s a HARD concept for students. Not only was it really difficult for students to understand […]

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!

Teaching main idea and details through non-fiction text with this fun lesson idea! See the visual supports the teacher used and grab the FREE writing craft for identifying main idea and details, too!

These digital activities for main idea are perfect for first grade and 2nd grade Google classroom! Finding the main idea and details will be fun with interactive, educational technology! Digital learning activities included are puzzles, main idea mystery bags, paragraph with topic sentences, worksheets, graphic organizers, anchor charts, and more! The main idea mysteries can be used on Google Slides! Use the organizers with books of your choice, too! Great for nonfiction & main topic units!

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 bag. I took the items out one by one and asked my students to think about how the items went together. The first bag were tools for cleaning your teeth. Then we discussed how they went together and what their purpose was. I then introduced the term main topic. I had the students break into groups…

Main idea anchor chart

The main idea is what a book is about and can usually be stated as a short summary. Here are books to share the main idea with your students!

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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