Main Idea and Supporting Details Task Cards Activity (Short Passages)

These task cards are a great way for students to have fun while practice their skills with identifying the main idea of a passage.

This activity has students reading 16 short and interesting informational text passages to each other and then asked to identify the main idea out of two possible choices. Some passages allow students to come up with their own judgement as to what the main idea is. The whole set is also available as non-multiple choice as well. A recording sheet with an answer key is provided.

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         ♦ Authors Purpose

         ♦ Cause and Effect

         ♦ Character Traits

         ♦ Compare and Contrast with Pictures

         ♦ Compare and Contrast

         ♦ Creative and Critical Thinking

         ♦ Drawing Conclusions

         ♦ Fact or Opinion

         ♦ Figurative Language

         ♦ Fluency

         ♦ Generalizations

         ♦ Genre Identification

         ♦ Genre Types

         ♦ Idioms

         ♦ Inference

         ♦ Literary Devices

         ♦ Main Idea

         ♦ Metaphors

         ♦ Nonfiction Text Features

         ♦ Paraphrasing

         ♦ Parts of a Book

         ♦ Personification

         ♦ Point of View

         ♦ Predictions

         ♦ Reading Comprehension

         ♦ Reading Response Questions

         ♦ Restating the Question

         ♦ Sequencing

         ♦ Setting

         ♦ Similes

         ♦ Story Elements

         ♦ Summarizing

         ♦ Text Structures: Informational Text Structures

         ♦ Theme

         ♦ Writing Prompts

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         ♦ Analogies (Grades 3-5)

         ♦ Analogies (Grades 6-8)

         ♦ Analogies (Grade 9)

         ♦ Antonyms

         ♦ Compound Words

         ♦ Context Clues

         ♦ Greek and Latin Roots

         ♦ Homophones

         ♦ Homonyms

         ♦ Multiple Meaning Words

         ♦ Prefixes

         ♦ Root Words

         ♦ Shades of Meaning

         ♦ Spelling

         ♦ Suffixes

         ♦ Synonyms

         ♦ Tone and Mood

         ♦ Transition Words

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         ♦ Adjective Identification

         ♦ Adjectives: Comparative and Superlative

         ♦ Adverbs

         ♦ Appositives

         ♦ Apostrophes

         ♦ Capitalization

         ♦ Clauses

         ♦ Commas

         ♦ Conjunctions

         ♦ Contractions

         ♦ Mentor Sentences

         ♦ Nouns: Common, Proper, and Plural

         ♦ Nouns: Collective

         ♦ Nouns: Common and Proper

         ♦ Nouns: Irregular Plural

         ♦ Nouns: Plural Nouns

         ♦ Nouns: Possessive Nouns

         ♦ Parts of Speech

         ♦ Prepositions

         ♦ Prepositional Phrases

         ♦ Pronouns: Identification

         ♦ Pronouns: Possessive

         ♦ Pronoun Antecedent Agreement

         ♦ Quotation Marks

         ♦ Sentence Types

         ♦ Sentences: Fragments and Run-Ons

         ♦ Sentences: Simple, Compound, and Complex

         ♦ Subject and Predicate: Complete and Compound

         ♦ Verb Identification

         ♦ Verb Tenses

         ♦ Verbs: Helping

         ♦ Verbs: Irregular

         ♦ Verbs: Subject Verb Agreement

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