Main Idea Lesson: Summarize with Main Idea & Details, Grades 4-5

"A classmate missed the field trip. You have 20 seconds to tell what happened. What do you say?" Students already know a good summary leaves things out. This lesson teaches what to keep (the main idea and two or three key details), what to change (put it in your own words) and what to leave out (opinions and small details).

What's inside

• 15 slides, with speaker notes on all 15
• Lesson plan, 2 pages
• Reading passage, 1 page
• Student worksheet, 2 pages
• Answer key, 1 page, with a model summary and a 4-point rubric
• All printables in one ready-to-print PDF, 6 pages

Answer key included

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