Finding Irrelevant Details

Learn how to identify and remove unnecessary and unrelated details in informational writing! In this worksheet, learners will read five passages that tell about different kinds of animals. They will need to determine what the main idea of the passage is in order to find and cross out the sentence that least supports it. 

This worksheet is intended for third and fourth graders learning how to distinguish between relevant and irrelevant details. Students can practice determining the main idea of a text and identify which details support the main idea and which ideas do not. This skill is vital for students as they begin to write about their own thoughts and opinions. 

Want more? Try similar practice such as Choose the Relevant Detail.