Comprehension Skill Cards - Finding The Main Idea (RL 3.0-4.5)

Improve Reading Comprehension Skill by Skill!

Do you have students who need extra practice with comprehension skills? Then, this product was designed especially for you. Short, high-interest, one-paragraph reading passages were specifically written to aid students in “Finding the Main Ideas.”

SPECIFIC SKILL: MAIN IDEA

What is the story mainly about? What point is the author trying to make? Being able to tell the main idea of a story means that you have put together the details and come up with the general idea the author is trying to get across. It is one of the most basic and essential comprehension skills.

READING PASSAGES

Each card has four, short, one-paragraph reading passages. The reading passages are written in such a way that students should be able to get the main idea of the passage.

The reading passages are arranged in ascending order. The progression allows students to begin at a lower reading level (Card 1a) and move on to higher levels (Card 8b) as their skills improve.

Reading levels begin at 3.0 and progress to 4.5 according the Flesch-Kincaid Reading Scale.

QUESTIONS

After each paragraph, there is a multiple-choice question that asks the students to complete this statement: This story mainly tells… To choose the correct answer, students will need to use details in the passage to choose which answer best describes the main idea.

Pre-printed answer strips can be filled out and used for students to mark down their answers.

DETAILS

Contents Include:

16 Story Cards

Printable Answer Strip Template

Teacher’s Guide

Answer Key

Comprehension Skills Progress Chart