IDENTIFY, ANALYZE, INFER THE MAIN IDEA OF NONFICTION, THE THEME OF LITERATURE
FICTION
Some of these guides use the term "main idea" instead of theme --
NWEA uses main idea at several levels in the fiction skills it measures.
Advanced Picture Planner to Communicate a Theme
What is the theme of the story? Spanish
Guide K-2 Students: Story Elements and Theme
Identify and support the theme of a story
Write a Play to Communicate the Theme of a Story
I Can Infer the theme of a Story
I Can Infer the theme in a Story—one page postable questions
Advanced Picture Planner to Communicate a Theme
Identify, Analyze, and Evaluate a Problem and Solutionto infer the theme
Guide K-2 Students: Story Elements and Theme
Analyze Story Theme Lesson Plan
Identify and support the theme of a story
Write a Play to Communicate the Theme of a Story
NONFICTION
I Can Infer the Main Idea When I Read
I Can Infer the Main Idea When I Read -- a guided example
Paragraph Reader--I can identify the main idea
Get It Together—Show What’s Important English / Spanish
I Can Infer the Main Idea of a Passage
Paragraph Reader: I Can Infer the Main Idea
Nonfiction Main Idea Developers
I can infer the main idea of a history
Readers use strategies to figure out the main idea of a nonfiction
Picture the Main Idea English / Spanish
Identify, Analyze, Infer the Main Idea
Constructed Response Exercise-Main Idea
I can Infer the Main Idea 2 with related writing
Students need to be able to identify the central idea and the supporting ideas
--a nonfiction text includes one central idea and related main ideas.