Intensive Reading: Main Idea and Supporting Details

Syllabus: CBC * Grade 5 * English * Strand 5.0 Reading * Sub-strand 5.2 Intensive Reading: Main Idea and Supporting Details (Theme: Community Helpers)

Lesson objectives

By the end of this topic, you should be able to:

• Identify the main idea of a paragraph or passage.
• Identify supporting details that develop the main idea.
• Respond correctly to factual and inferential questions about a text.

Summary

In this topic, you will read a passage about a school librarian and practise identifying the main idea of a passage along with the details that support it.