teaching resource

Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction - Interactive Activity

Updated: 14 Jun 2023

Help your students easily find the main idea and support details in a nonfiction text with this interactive activity.

Editable: PowerPoint, Google Slides
Pages: 1 Page
Years: 1 - 4

Curriculum

AC9E1LY05

Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning when listening, viewing and reading to build literal and inferred meaning by drawing on vocabulary and growing knowledge of context and text structures
AC9E2LY05

Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning
AC9E3LY05

Use comprehension strategies when listening and viewing to build literal and inferred meaning, and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features
AC9E4LY05

Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning, to expand topic knowledge and ideas, and evaluate texts

teaching resource

Main Idea and Details in Nonfiction - Interactive Activity

Updated: 14 Jun 2023

Help your students easily find the main idea and support details in a nonfiction text with this interactive activity.

Editable: PowerPoint, Google Slides
Pages: 1 Page
Years: 1 - 4

Help your students easily find the main idea and support details in a nonfiction text with this interactive activity.

📗 7 Nonfiction Texts to Find the Main Idea

Are you currently teaching your students about the main idea and supporting details? This interactive main idea activity is the perfect way for your students to show their knowledge and skills in this area when it comes to finding the main idea in a nonfiction text.

The skill of finding the main idea in nonfiction texts is crucial for children’s development and academic success. When children understand the main idea, it serves as an anchor for remembering and retaining the content of the text. By focusing on the central message, children can better recall supporting details and relevant information.

💻 Interactive Activity for English Groups

This interactive activity is the perfect addition to your small group work during rotational work. For each of the 7 nonfiction texts available, students need to identify the main idea plus three bits of supporting detail for each text. To take this further, you can use this text for activities that support students understanding of nonfiction texts.

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Use the dropdown icon on the Download button to choose between the PowerPoint or Google Slides version of this resource.

Please be sure to open in Edit mode, not Presentation mode. Students drag and drop and use the colour tool to complete each of the activities.

This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a Teach Starter collaborator.

Curriculum

AC9E1LY05

Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising and questioning when listening, viewing and reading to build literal and inferred meaning by drawing on vocabulary and growing knowledge of context and text structures
AC9E2LY05

Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning
AC9E3LY05

Use comprehension strategies when listening and viewing to build literal and inferred meaning, and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features
AC9E4LY05

Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning, to expand topic knowledge and ideas, and evaluate texts

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