Find the Main Idea: A Recipe for Successful Baking

Learn to whip up a delicious treat as you practice important reading skills in this colorful worksheet! First, learners will read a passage about the importance of following steps correctly when baking. They will select the main idea from a list of choices, then underline three details in the passage that support that main idea. Finally, they’ll come up with an appropriate title for the passage. 

This worksheet is ideal for third, fourth, and fifth graders working on their reading comprehension skills. An understanding of how main ideas and supporting details are structured in nonfiction passages can help learners follow along with the texts they are reading and support them as they start to write their own paragraphs! 

Keep working on these skills with Find the Main Idea: Grow a Salsa Garden.