Students will learn how to summarize the key details and main idea of the text. In this lesson, students will read a text about and written by Mia Hamm called Winners Never Quit. Students will learn ...

For nearly an hour, Dowan McNair-Lee has been walking her 8th grade English/language arts students through ways to identify the central idea of a text. She’s come at it from several angles, and no ...

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Many students experience anxiety over main idea questions on ACT and SAT Reading sections. These question types can be daunting because they require you to synthesize large chunks of text rather than ...