Main idea second grade

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!

Main idea is a skill we focus on across multiple grade levels. This post features the book, Animals in Winter, as a mentor text.

Anchor Chart for Teaching Main Idea :) the whole pizza is the main idea and the toppings are the details that support it!

Main idea and details is one of my favorite reading standards! Click to find great activities you can use to practice main idea and supporting details.

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!

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

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

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.

Grab these free main idea passages on task cards - perfect for helping children in second, third, and fourth grade master this challenging skill!