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Browse our collection of summarising worksheets and text passages aimed at supporting readers to evaluate information and separate the main idea/s from the supporting detail. These resources also include a number of the graphic organisers that are designed to help students summarise a given text. Watch our Main Idea Video.

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Storyboard Graphic Organiser

This template helps learners map out a story by identifying all the key events.

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Reading Strategy Poster Set

Middle and upper years reading strategy posters: creating images, inferring, summarising, connections, prior knowledge & questioning.

Main Idea: No Play

Read the text. Work out the main idea and the supporting details.

Early Years Reading Strategy Posters

Reading strategy posters for the early years: creating images, inferring, summarising, connections, prior knowledge & questioning.

Visualise a Scene: Leaves

Read a middle years passage and build a visual image to match. Draw it!

Inferring in Texts (7)

Passages of text for the upper years. Read the text and make inferences to answer the questions.

Making Connections: Waterpark (2)

For the middle years. Students read the passage of text and write down connections they can make.