Are your students regurgitating facts from a text without really thinking about main ideas? When you ask about the main idea of a text (or section), do you get a shrug? What follows is a description of a conference I held with a student in which we explore what the main idea is in a …Read more

Teaching students to identify the main ideas in a text is sometimes hard. The more explicit we can be, the better students will catch on. My key strategies for teaching main idea include the following… Two-Page Resource This is a short comprehension module on teaching main idea. It includes language you can use to explain …Read more