Pages 1 to 4 each hold a short text with its questions: the main idea, the details that support it, and answers children back up with the text. Page 5 works with any nonfiction text: the main idea, three details and where each was found. Pages 6 and 7 are a listen and answer pair: read page 6 aloud, then hand out page 7, which has the questions without the text.
Number the paragraphs before reading. After each one, ask partners to say in a few words what it is mostly about, then decide together which sentence would make the best main idea for the whole text.
Read a text together and ask your child to tell you the most important idea in one sentence, then to show you two details in the text that prove it.
Short texts about snowshoe hares, salmon, gorillas and koalas, written at a 3rd grade level. Children find the main idea of each text, the details that support it and the paragraph that tells them, and answer questions about a text read aloud.
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