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Main Idea and Key Details

4th Grade

Alabama Course of Study Standards: 21

Explain how relevant details support the implied or explicit main idea of a text.
  1. Determine the central idea or theme of a text.
  2. Explain the difference between implied and explicit details.
  3. Summarize the key supporting details by citing evidence from a text.

Arkansas Academic Standards: RI.4.2

Examine a grade-appropriate informational text.
  • Provide a summary.
  • Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details.

Arizona Academic Standards: 4.RI.2

Common Core State Standards: Literacy.RI.4.2

Georgia Standards of Excellence (GSE): ELAGSE4RI2

Ohio's Learning Standards: RI.4.2

Analyze informational text development.
  1. Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details.
  2. Provide a summary of the text that includes the main idea and key details, as well as other important information.

Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks: RI.4.2

Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize a text. For example, students read parts of I, Columbus, a retelling of entries from Columbus’s journal of 1492-93 by Peter and Connie Roop. In pairs, they summarize important facts about Columbus’s voyage, arrival, search for gold, failure to understand the treasures on the islands, and return to Spain. They use what they have learned to write reports, which they display in the library. (RI.4.2, W.4.2, W.4.4)

Tennessee Academic Standards: 4.RI.KID.2

Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize a text.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 4.11.A*

summarize the main idea and supporting details in text in ways that maintain meaning

Pennsylvania Core Standards: CC.1.2.4.a

Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the tex

Pennsylvania Core Standards:      E04.B-K.1.1.2

Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text.
4th Grade Reading - Main Idea and Key Details Lesson
 
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