Main Idea & Summarizing (Comprehension Mini-Lessons)

Sure-fire lessons and motivating activities—from Paragraph Portraits to Hand Summaries—help every learner master the essential comprehension skills of finding the main idea and summarizing. Each section includes a variety of lessons to reinforce skills, a test-preparation lesson and test-formatted activity page, and a fun wrap-up project with evaluation ideas. For use with Grades 4-8.