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6.10A summarize the main ideas and supporting details in text, demonstrating an understanding that a summary does not include opinions.
6.10D synthesize and make logical connections between ideas within a text and across two or three texts representing similar or different genres.
Recurring TEKS:
Fig,19D make inferences about text and use textual evidence to support understanding;
Fig 19E summarize, paraphrase, and synthesize texts in ways that maintain meaning and logical order within a text and across texts.
6.2 Reading/Vocabulary Development. Students understand new vocabulary and use it when reading and writing. Students are expected to:

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Main Idea Practice

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Many students have difficulties identifying main ideas in nonfiction texts. In order to understand and express the main idea of a passage, the reader must not only comprehend the text but also make connections within the content and find overarching ideas. To further complicate the process, the reader may also have to recognize and disregard nonessential information.

So while this identifying main ideas may come simply and naturally to good readers, it is actually a two or three step process and struggling readers may trip up on any one of those steps. If your students need more practice identifying the main idea in a variety of texts, look no further: these main idea worksheets and resources will give your students practice identifying main ideas.

Valentine's Day Main Idea and Text Structure Review Worksheet - Your students will LOVE working through these six passages, expressing the main idea of each, titling them, and visually representing the text using graphic organizers. Suggested reading level for this text: Grade 6-10
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Main Idea Lesson - An animated PowerPoint slideshow explaining what main idea is and how one may go about identifying it. This concise presentation includes five practice problems after the lesson.
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Common Core State Standards Related to Main Idea

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.4.2 - Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text.

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CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.1.2 - Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.2.6 - Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.3.2 - Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.4.2 - Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.5.2 - Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.6.2 - Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.7.2 - Determine two or more central ideas in a text and analyze their development over the course of the text; provide an objective summary of the text.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.8.2 - Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.9-10.2 - Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including how it emerges and is shaped and refined by specific details; provide an objective summary of the text.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.11-12.2 - Determine two or more central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text, including how they interact and build on one another to provide a complex analysis; provide an objective summary of the text.

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Main Idea Worksheets | Ereading Worksheets

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Many students have difficulties identifying main ideas in nonfiction texts. In order to understand and express the main idea of a passage, the reader must not only comprehend the text but also make connections within the content and find overarching ideas. To further complicate the process, the reader may also have to recognize and disregard nonessential information.

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NASA NEWS RELEASE

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MAIN IDEA

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A song I made for my students to help them remember how to find the main idea! =) Parody of Justin Beiber "Beauty and the Beat." Please contact missmaggiemusic@yahoo.com with any questions!

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Flocabulary

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Week 3 1st six weeks

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Satellite Picture of the Ocean

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How Earth satellites including the JPL-managed Topex/Poseidon are helping researchers track the movements and behaviors of sea lions and seals to keep them from extinction.

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Seals

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hawaiian monk seal (organism classification)

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Hawaiian Monk Seals | JONATHAN BIRD'S BLUE WORLD

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Hawaiian Monk seals are a critically endangered group of warm water seals that are only found in the Hawaiian archipelago. Only about 1,200 of the animals remain. Jonathan sets course for the Forbidden Island of Ni'ihau to meet some of these reclusive animals, and gets a fascinating insight into the lonely world of the Monk seal.