CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.2 Worksheets

Grade 3 · Reading: Informational Text

Determine the main idea of a text and explain how key details support it.

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Printable anchor chart

Print a wall poster that supports this standard, with a code-drawn diagram students can point to.

What students learn

Determine the main idea of a text and explain how key details support it.

Worked example

What odd thing kept happening in the library?

Answer: A dinosaur book kept appearing on the reading rug, open to the velociraptor page

Generated and checked in code, so it is correct.

Main idea

What is the text mostly about?

Detail 1

A fact that supports it

Detail 2

A fact that supports it

Detail 3

A fact that supports it

A main idea organizer separates a text's central idea from the key details that support it.