Reading Comprehension Strategies
Subject: ELA · Grade level: 5th
Find main ideas, make inferences, and summarize — strategies that work on any passage.
In this lesson
- Find the main idea
- Make inferences
- Summarize without copying
Key terms
- Main idea
- The most important point of a passage — usually one sentence.
- Supporting detail
- A fact, example, or reason that backs up the main idea.
- Topic
- The subject of the passage in just a few words.
- Topic sentence
- The sentence (usually first) that states what a paragraph is about.
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