A Scaffolded Approach to Helping Students identify the topic, main idea, and supporting details in informational text. Promote high-quality instruction with this teacher-developed, scaffolded resource for reading comprehension. Enhance students’ confidence, promote independent learning, and assist students to reach proficiency in grade-level targets with included scaffolding such as graphic organizers, visual aids with real photography, guiding questions, bolded vocabulary words with definitions, and answer keys for self-checking. Main Idea Markup is an activity that gives students the text and practice they need to with multi-paragraph informational text. This center strengthens students’ comprehension and metacognitive skills. Distinguishing the topic, main idea, and supporting details is important to comprehension development and critical thinking skills as well as writing skills. Students transfer their textual evidence to a graphic organizer to become more mindful of topic, main idea, and detail concepts and verbiage in their reading, writing, speaking, and listening.

• WHAT YOU GET: Includes 5 Text Cards (8.5” x 11”), 5 Answer Key Cards (3.5” x 5”), 16 Text Markers (2” x 0.75”), 1 Task Card (6” x 9”), 1 Really Good Stuff Instructional Guide (8.5” x 11”)
  
• SCAFFOLDED: Includes scaffolding such as graphic organizers, visual aids with real photography, guiding questions, bolded vocabulary words with definitions, and answer keys for self-checking.
  
• SKILLS BASED & CREATED BY TEACHERS: This product is purposefully created by teachers who have real-world classroom experience to align to multiple learning standards. Skills covered include identifying topic, identifying main idea, and identifying important supporting details.
  
• INDEPENDENT PRACTICE BUILDS CONFIDENCE: Children develop confidence as they complete and interact with these materials independently.
  
• SUPPORTS SMALL GROUPWORK: Main Idea Markup is ideal for students to pair up to work on the activity. Different color flag markers allow students to collaborate easily.