Main Idea and Details

Learning Objective: Identify the stated or unstated main idea of a paragraph and supporting details; state the overall main idea of a text.

Lesson Plan

Passages

Model Passage

A Tour of the White House

770L Nonfiction
  • Passage
Practice Passage

Finding King Tut's Tomb

830L Nonfiction
Independent Practice Passage 1

Amazing, Enormous, Extinct Animals

840L Nonfiction
Independent Practice Passage 2

The Community Garden

680L Fiction