A picture is worth a thousand words. Help your class out with some of those words with a video about drawing inferences from reading passages, images, and other media. The resource focuses on the supporting details of each passage...

Skilled readers can find the main idea of an informative passage without finding it directly stated. A reading video prompts elementary learners to examine supporting details in several examples, and to infer what the main idea...

Helpful for both reading and writing units, a video about identifying supporting details in reading passage shows young learners the importance of bulking up informative writing. The presentation uses cartoons and longer passages to...

Once you find the main idea of a paragraph, it's easy to see how the rest of the details are supporting evidence. Take your readers through an explanatory video that demonstrates the points and supports of several reading examples.

Tap your toes and give a snap to a jazz inspired song showcasing a paragraph's main idea. Pupils hear about a paragraph's structure, including its topic sentence, supporting details, and the conclusion, and how they relate to identifying...

This tutorial provides two videos focusing on using headings and subheadings in paper writing: the first video discusses the purpose and when to use them; the second discusses how to format them. Textual information is also provided...

In this lesson, you will learn how to express the main idea by writing a thesis statement. [5:38]

In this lesson, you will learn how to check to see if you understood a text by teaching it to someone else. [3:35]

In this lesson, you will learn how to figure out what type of writing you should do to answer a prompt by identifying the key ideas in the prompt. [4:08]