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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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Early Years Reading Strategy Posters
Reading strategy posters for the early years: creating images, inferring, summarising, connections, prior knowledge & questioning.
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.
Main Idea: Bike Ride Poem
Read the poem. Work out the main idea and the supporting details.
Main Idea: That’s Life
Read the text. Work out the main idea and the supporting details.
Main Idea: Theme Park (1)
A reading passage for the early years. Read the text and work out the main idea and the supporting details.
Main Idea: Theme Park (2)
A reading passage for the upper years. Read the text and work out the main idea and the supporting details
Main Idea: Super Threads
Read the text. Work out the main idea and the supporting details.
Main Idea: The Rescue
Read the text. Work out the main idea and the supporting details.
Main Idea: Jungle Paradise
Read the text. Work out the main idea and the supporting details.
Main Idea: An Interview
Read the text. Work out the main idea and the supporting details.
Main Idea: The Concert
Read the text. Work out the main idea and the supporting details.
Main Idea: The Book Nook
Read the text. Work out the main idea and the supporting details.
Main Idea: Power Pat
Read the text. Work out the main idea and the supporting details.
Main Idea & Details: Pirates
Main Idea & Details: New Colony
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