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3.6.G

8 lessons teach this standard. Every lesson is interactive, and every one prints as a worksheet with a separate answer key.

Grade 3 Reading · Chapter 1 · Lesson 1

Finding the Main Idea

The one idea that holds every sentence together.

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Grade 3 Reading · Chapter 1 · Lesson 2

Telling a Detail from the Main Idea

Details are true, and that is exactly what makes them tempting.

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Grade 3 Reading · Chapter 1 · Lesson 3

When No Sentence States It

Often the main idea is not written anywhere. You have to build it.

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Grade 3 Reading · Chapter 1 · Lesson 4

Main Idea in a Longer Text

Each paragraph has one. The whole text has one above them.

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Grade 3 Reading · Chapter 2 · Lesson 1

What to Leave Out

Summarizing is deciding, not shortening.

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Grade 3 Reading · Chapter 2 · Lesson 2

Keeping the Order

A summary in the wrong order says something the text did not.

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Grade 3 Reading · Chapter 2 · Lesson 3

Summarizing a Story

Keep the chain of causes, and nothing else.

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Grade 3 Reading · Chapter 2 · Lesson 4

Summarizing an Article

Main idea first, then the reasons it stands on.

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