Other Skills: Character Traits Compare and Contrast Context Clues Fact and Opinion Figurative Language Point of View Rhythm & Rhyme Story Elements Summary Symbolism Theme
A main idea is the brief summary of the most important concept or concepts in a passage. There can be a main idea, sometimes called a central idea, in a paragraph or a section of a text as well.
President John F. Kennedy set an ambitious goal in 1961 that America would land on the moon before the end of the decade. In th...
Students will read a passage about Amur tigers, also known as Siberian tigers, and learn about their status as an endangered sp...
by Theodore Roosevelt
An avid conservationist, President Theodore Roosevel...
Bessie Blount Griffin was an inventor, nurse, physical therapist, and forensic scientist. She was the first African American wo...
Students will read a passage about blue whales and threats they face in their ocean environment. They will then answer question...
Students will read a passage about the tricoteuses, the knitting women who sat near the guillotine during the French Revolution...
by Helen Keller from The Story of My Life
Chapter XVIII passage: After overcoming an early chi...
Chapter XIII passage: Helen Keller, born 1880, was a...
Chapter IX passage: After losing her sight and heari...
Chapter VI passage: While she was born with the abil...