RI.4.2 Worksheets
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.4.2
:"Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text."
These worksheets can help students practice this Common Core State Standards skill.
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Examine the Song “My Country ‘Tis of Thee”
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Examine the Song “My Country ‘Tis of Thee”
Use this worksheet to help your students understand patriotic songs, like an older national anthem.
4th Grade
Social studies
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Main Idea: At the Movies
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Main Idea: At the Movies
Children will love this imaginative worksheet that invites them to identify the main idea of a movie plot by coming up with a title for it!
4th Grade
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Graphic Organizer Template: Concept Web
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Graphic Organizer Template: Concept Web
Concept maps are versatile and useful for all subject areas. Use this concept map for word work, main idea and supporting details, or to map out ideas.
3rd Grade
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Language Frames: Nonfiction Summary
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Language Frames: Nonfiction Summary
Support discussions about main ideas and summarization with these helpful language frames. This worksheet will help your students organize their thoughts and information from a nonfiction paragraph or text.
4th Grade
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Make a Summary: Butterflies
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Make a Summary: Butterflies
Your students will work together to find new vocabulary words and create a short summary of a nonfiction text related to the butterfly life cycle. Use this worksheet as an introduction to the Create a Nonfiction Text Summary lesson plan.
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Graphic Organizer Template: Bubble Map
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Graphic Organizer Template: Bubble Map
Teachers can use this general organizer template for main idea and details, pre-writing, word analysis, brain dumps, concept mapping, background knowledge collection, and more.
Kindergarten
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Nonfiction Graphic Organizer Template: Main Idea and Details
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Nonfiction Graphic Organizer Template: Main Idea and Details
This graphic organizer template provides a helpful framework for young scholars as they begin to read to learn.
Kindergarten
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Find the Main Idea: Shark
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Find the Main Idea: Shark
Kids will learn about sharks as they read this short and informative worksheet.
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Adverbial Phrases in Nonfiction
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Adverbial Phrases in Nonfiction
In this worksheet, students will learn how to use adverbial phrases in their writing.
4th Grade
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Discovering Details
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Discovering Details
Students will identify supporting details, in the form of adverbial phrases, in a nonfiction text excerpt.
4th Grade
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Vocabulary Cards: Discovering Nonfiction Details
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Vocabulary Cards: Discovering Nonfiction Details
Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Discovering Nonfiction Details.
4th Grade
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Glossary: Discovering Nonfiction Details
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Glossary: Discovering Nonfiction Details
Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Discovering Nonfiction Details.
4th Grade
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Main Idea & Details: Icebergs
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Main Idea & Details: Icebergs
Students will identify the main idea and supporting details in a short nonfiction text.
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Glossary: Adjectives in Informational Texts
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Glossary: Adjectives in Informational Texts
Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Adjectives in Informational Texts.
4th Grade
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Vocabulary Cards: Adjectives in Informational Texts
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Vocabulary Cards: Adjectives in Informational Texts
Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Adjectives in Informational Texts.
4th Grade
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What's It All About? Main Ideas and Supporting Details
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What's It All About? Main Ideas and Supporting Details
Get to the point with this worksheet about the main idea and how supporting details help it make sense.
4th Grade
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Vocabulary Cards: Nonfiction Main Idea
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Vocabulary Cards: Nonfiction Main Idea
Use these vocabulary cards with the EL Support Lesson: Nonfiction Main Idea.
4th Grade
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Glossary: Nonfiction Main Idea
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Glossary: Nonfiction Main Idea
Use this glossary with the EL Support Lesson: Nonfiction Main Idea.
4th Grade
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Find the Main Idea: The Moon
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Find the Main Idea: The Moon
Children learn about the Moon, then practice finding and writing the main idea, in this literacy worksheet.
4th Grade
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Historical Heroes: Eleanor Roosevelt
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Historical Heroes: Eleanor Roosevelt
Learn about Eleanor Roosevelt, the groundbreaking first lady known for her humanitarian work and for being the first U.S.delegate to the United Nations in 1942.
4th Grade
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Ideas of The Harlem Renaissance
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Ideas of The Harlem Renaissance
In the worksheet Ideas of the Harlem Renaissance, children learn what this cultural movement was about, as well as some famous artists who emerged at the time.
3rd Grade
Social studies
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Ada Lovelace Biography
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Ada Lovelace Biography
Children read about Ada Lovelace, whose ideas are still used in computing today, in this biography worksheet.
4th Grade
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Finding the Main Idea: Madam C.J. Walker
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Finding the Main Idea: Madam C.J. Walker
Children learn about Madam C.J. Walker, the first woman to become a self-made millionaire in the United States, in this Finding the Main Idea worksheet.
4th Grade
Social studies
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Dorothea Lange and the FSA Photographers
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Dorothea Lange and the FSA Photographers
Children learn about three women who emerged as influential photographers during the Great Depression in the United States through the FSA program.
4th Grade
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Ideas of The Harlem Renaissance
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Ideas of The Harlem Renaissance
In the worksheet Ideas of the Harlem Renaissance, children learn what this cultural movement was about, as well as some famous artists who emerged at the time.
3rd Grade
Social studies
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The First All-Female Spacewalk
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The First All-Female Spacewalk
When Christina Koch and Jessica Meir traveled to the International Space Station in October 2019, they went down in history as having completed the first all-female spacewalk. Children can learn about this momentous trip with the help of this worksheet.
2nd Grade
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Women in History: Marian Anderson
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Women in History: Marian Anderson
Children read a brief biography of world renowned opera singer Marian Anderson, then answer a series of reading comprehension questions.
4th Grade
Social studies
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Writing a Nonfiction Summary: Sharks
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Writing a Nonfiction Summary: Sharks
Use this resource to read a nonfiction passage about sharks and write a summary.
5th Grade
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Writing a Nonfiction Summary: The Mimic Octopus
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Writing a Nonfiction Summary: The Mimic Octopus
Practice writing nonfiction summaries as you read and learn about an interesting ocean creature.
5th Grade
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Find & Support the Main Idea: Dia de Los Muertos
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Find & Support the Main Idea: Dia de Los Muertos
Children learn about Día de los Muertos as they practice finding and supporting the main idea in this nonfiction comprehension worksheet.
4th Grade
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