Teaching main idea 2nd grade

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 […]

I believe that the best way to teach main idea is through modeling think alouds in mentor texts. In this blog, I share tips for choosing.

We've gathered up all of the FREE reading comprehension response sheets we've created and put them HERE! They can be paired with any book and are useful all year long! Grab these sheets for your Kindergarten, 1st grade, or 2nd grade classroom today!

If you're teaching main idea in 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade then you need to try this hands-on sorting activity! This main idea and details sentence sort activity is a great way to get students thinking about HOW details support a main idea. Using a main idea and details graphic organizer, students will sort the sentences and they will use higher-order thinking skills as they justify their answer.

These worksheets for main idea and supporting details are a great way to build reading comprehension in young students. Grab the free sample.

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 is a complex skill that students in 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th grade must master. If you find that you teach main idea once, and then your students can not remember how to find the main idea of text a few weeks later, these teaching tips are for you! Teach your students how to find the main idea of any text, any time, by following some simple steps and turning the process into a reading formula that students follow. By following these easy teaching tips, your students will master…

Finding the main idea in a non-fiction text can be tricky, but I've developed a few tried-and-true ways to make this important skill engaging, FUN and successful! Check out this anchor chart and a few other quick and easy lessons and activities to help students easily identify the main idea in a non-fiction text. #mainidea #languagearts #teachingwithamountainview

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WHY TEACH STUDENTS TO FIND THE MAIN IDEA? Being able to find the main idea and supporting details of a text is a complex and important nonfiction reading skill for upper elementary students (3rd-5th grade). "Learning