Spring Activities for Main Idea and Supporting Details

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A comprehensive resource for teaching main idea with fun spring-themed reading passages and graphic organizers to help students pinpoint main idea.

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Description

Did you know you can make teaching main idea and supporting details easy for your students? They no longer have to struggle or get confused when mastering this skill! These short spring-themed reading passages with graphic organizers make it easy for students to pinpoint the main idea. Supporting details are strategically placed so students can easily practice identifying small details supporting the main idea. With repeated practice, your students will eventually be able to explain how the details of the passage support the main idea.

 

Teaching main idea with this PRINT & DIGITAL is the perfect activity for spring! This resource includes high-interest nonfiction reading passages that will spark the interest of students and encourage active participation and learning during the crazy spring months. The main idea in these passages may be found anywhere from the first sentence to the fifth sentence of the paragraph.

 

What’s Included:

  • 20 Spring-Themed Printable Nonfiction Reading Passages with Graphic Organizers
  • Google Slides Digital Version
  • Answer Keys

 

Topics to Spark Learning:

  • Spring Fever
  • April Showers
  • Time to Grow
  • Nesting Birds
  • Sneezing Season
  • Spring Cleaning
  • Thundering Clouds
  • Seasonal Folklore
  • Changing Seasons
  • Joking Around
  • Creepy Crawlies
  • Colorful Beginnings
  • Spring Training
  • Honoring Mom
  • Springtime Babies
  • Fascinating Twisters
  • Hopping Around
  • Celebrating Trees
  • Frogspawn
  • Spring Has Sprung

 

Teaching Main Idea with A Scaffolded Approach!

When teaching main idea and supporting details, it’s important to start small and basic. With this resource, you can provide your students with short, easy-to-read paragraphs with an obvious main idea and easy-to-find supporting details to choose from. This strategy helps students get in the habit of focusing on what the text is mostly about. It also allows students to pinpoint key ideas that support and help describe the main idea.

 

This resource is the fifth in a series of practice packs. The main idea may be found anywhere from the first sentence to the fifth sentence of the paragraph. If you’re looking for an easier version with the main idea in the first sentence, you may want to check out Main Idea and Supporting Details Activities. It is the perfect resource for teaching main idea to beginners just starting to learn how to find main idea and supporting details in a non-fiction reading passage.

 

Activity Options for Teaching Main Idea:

  • individual printable worksheets
  • a printable practice packet
  • digital Google Slides assignments

 

⭐ The digital version of this resource was created in Google Slides. Each reading passage comes with its own Google link so you can digitally assign these activities to your students.

 

Ways to Use this Resource:

  • whole group instruction
  • morning work
  • small groups
  • independent desk work
  • assessments
  • early finishers
  • homework
  • sub plans, and so much more!

 

Depending on how much your students know about finding the main idea will depend on how you use these non-fiction reading passages. Third-grade students may need modeling of the activity before completing one on their own. Fourth-grade students should easily be able to find the main idea and supporting details after a brief introduction. Fifth-grade students could use these passages to review third and fourth-grade skills in finding the main idea and supporting details.

 

Teachers like you said…

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I own several sets of these seasonal main idea resources. They are perfect for practicing main idea and key details with my students. The digital option makes it so easy to assign on Google Classroom. I really like the variety of passages and how the main idea isn’t always found in the first sentence of every passage. – Brandy V.

 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great resource for identifying main idea and supporting details! So many great passages that hold my students’ interest. They get the practice that they need and within a time frame that they can view as manageable without giving up. I love all of your themed sets and my students have benefitted from using them this year! Thank you so much! – Karen G.

 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Passages were short, sweet, and to the point. There was enough information to allow students to easily identify the main ideas and details. I will use this often! – Sarah E.

 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This resource was a great one to use when reviewing main idea and supporting details during RTI time in class. It was the perfect level for my students who needed extra assistance when reviewing strategies for using main idea. 10/10 recommend! – BriAnne L.

 

Extension Activity for Teaching Main Idea:

RI.4.2 asks students to determine the main idea and supporting details and summarize the text. Once students have completed the activity, you could have them use their web, including the main idea and three supporting details to write a summary of the text.

 

Bundle and save for a discount!

Purchase the Main Idea and Supporting Details Bundle to get this pack, plus 4 more resources that build on the other. Each packet in the bundle gradually gets harder, and scaffolded instruction of main idea takes place.

 

Supports Common Core Standards (CCSS):

RI.3.2

RI.4.2

RI.5.2

 

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