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Details about Digging Up Dinosaurs Worksheet

This Details about Digging Up Dinosaurs Worksheet helps students identify the main idea and key details while reading a passage about dinosaurs.

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How to teach Main Idea

This Details about Digging Up Dinosaurs Worksheet helps students identify the main idea and key details while reading a passage about dinosaurs.

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

Read the book Digging Up Dinosaurs. Next,students write the key details from the text in the boxes. Then, they determine the main idea of the passage.

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Use this Main Idea and Details Activity as an additional resource for your students.

Introduce this worksheet by reading a short book. Next, ask students what the book was about and how they know. Then, have students complete the worksheet independently or with a partner. 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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