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Grade 3 Reading & Writing · World 7: Fact Finders' Lab · Level 56
Main Idea and Key Details
Find what a section is mostly about and the facts that support it.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 56
- Welcome to Fact Finders' Lab! Informational texts teach facts. Each section has a main idea: what it's mostly about.
- Read this section. Most of the sentences tell how mother turtles make nests and lay eggs. That's the main idea!
- Key details are facts that support the main idea: she digs a hole with her back flippers; she lays about 100 eggs.
- The whole article has a main idea too. Put the sections together: nesting, hatching, and how people help. The article is about protecting Georgia's sea turtles.
Georgia's K-12 English Language Arts Standards:
- 3.T.T.2.a — Describe the techniques used to present and design expository texts, including facts and key details used to support the main idea. (I)