What is the Main Topic? Activity

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How to teach Main Idea

Using What is the Main Topic? Activity,students identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.

Being able determine the main idea of a text helps your students build their reading comprehension. This activity will help your students organize their thoughts to find the main topic as they read.

Students read the passage and use the activity page to identify the main topic of each paragraph and then the entire article.

Other resources to use with this What is the Main Topic? Activity

If you are using this activity, your students are probably learning about main idea.

Use this Main Idea Hand Graphic Organizer as an additional resource for your students.

Introduce this activity by reading a short book. Next, ask students what the book was about and how they know. Then, have students complete the activity independently or with a partner as they read. Once finished, have students share out the main idea of their text. Finally, challenge students to share the main idea of the book by completing the sentence starter “This book is about..” using only 5 words!

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