One main idea and the details that tell more
Make a main idea and details organizer for any book or passage. The big box at the top is for the main idea: what the text is mostly about. The boxes under it are for the details that tell more. Choose two, three or four details, and add a box to draw each one.
Your worksheet:
Finding the main idea means sorting what matters most from the small facts. It is a first step toward telling someone what a book was about.
After reading, ask what the page or the book was mostly about, and write that in the big box. Then look back in the text for two or three things that tell more about it.
A beginner can say the answers and draw them while you write. The words on the organizer are for a grown-up to read.
Yes. Print a passage from the reading passage generator, read it, then fill in this page.
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Hole punch letter card makerHole punch cards: a letter in the middle and mixed letters in circles round the edge to find and punch.
Alphabet paper chain makerPaper chain strips: one letter on each strip, capital and small, with its picture, to link in order into a chain.
Feed the box sorting game makerFeed the box: box fronts with a slot and a label, and cards to read and post. Word families, first sounds or your own groups.
Word family houses makerWord family houses: a plain house for each ending, such as -at and -an, and word cards to read and glue in the right house.
File folder game makerFile folder game: two board pages of pictures and a page of word or first letter pieces to match to them.
Picture strip puzzle makerPicture strip puzzles: a picture cut into strips with a letter of its word under each. Spell the word to rebuild the picture.
Word puzzle makerWord puzzles: a picture and its word on one card, cut after the first sound or between all letters. Each cut has its own shape.
Real or nonsense word sort makerReal or nonsense sort: eight real short words and eight made-up words to sound out and glue on the right side of a mat.
ABC order worksheet makerABC order pages: five letters in a row, or four words with different first letters, to cut out and glue in order.
Name puzzle makerName puzzle: a typed name in big letters with a cut line between each, a model to match, and the name to trace and write.
Name craft makerName craft: each letter of a typed name on a plain circle to cut out and glue in order, with the name to trace and write.
Compound word puzzle makerCompound word puzzles: two short words on a card with a shaped cut between them, such as sun and set. With answer key.
Three-piece letter puzzle makerThree-piece puzzles: capital letter, small letter and the picture for its sound on one strip, cut in three.
Sight word bracelet makerPaper bracelets: a strip for each word with “I can read”, the word in big print and three stars to color.
Letter badge and necklace makerLetter badges: a round badge with the capital and small letter, the picture for its sound and its word, to hang on a string.
Retelling bracelet makerRetelling bracelets: a paper strip with who, where, first, next, then, last in plain circles, five on a page.
Reading pointer makerReading pointers: a plain star, arrow and circle to glue on a craft stick, and sentences with a dot under each word.
Finger spacer makerFinger spacers: four plain strips to cut out and lay down after each word, with sentences to read and copy.
Letter animal alphabet poster makerLetter animal posters and wall cards: each capital letter drawn as an animal or thing for its sound, with both letters and the word.
Letter of the day page makerLetter of the day pages: the letter animal, the capital and small letter to trace and write, and a short key word to read and trace.
Two-piece matching game makerMatching game: picture pairs such as a cone and its scoop with a capital and small letter, a letter and a word, or the same word on each piece.
Who, what, where question card makerQuestion cards: twelve small picture scenes, each with Who is in the picture? What is happening? Where is it?
Look, talk and write page makerLook, talk and write: a picture scene, three questions to talk about, a sentence start to trace, a box of words and lines to write on.No maker matches that yet. Clear the box to see them all.
“Behind in reading” can mean ten different things, and each one needs different help. Check off what is true for your child. You will see the one thing to work on first, and what can wait.
