1G16 – Main Idea and Supporting Details

How do live lessons work?

Live lessons are interactive slides and course outlines that are used to teach Treeway Live Classes. Click on the arrows to navigate backward and forwards through the slides.

How Do I Use the Lesson Plans?

Read this lesson plan before class to familiarize yourself with the ideas and concepts you’ll be teaching the students. You may print this page out if you need to use it as a reference point during live classes.

This lesson is a guide, but feel free to expand on the content or decrease/increase what you teach depending on the learning levels of the students in your class or the amount of time you have to cover the material.

Can I show videos in live classes?

Yes, feel free to include additional material to supplement the class lesson material. Videos, Physical Objects, Games, Activities, etc. are okay to share in live classes.

Videos should have no advertisements or logos and should be viewed by you before showing them to the students to ensure no offensive or questionable content is included.

The video should make up only a small portion of the live class.

How do bookmarks work?

Bookmarks help you keep track of lessons you’re going to teach in future live classes. The bookmarks you see are for all your bookmarked lessons across all grades.

You can bookmark a lesson by visiting the lesson you want to bookmark and clicking the “bookmark” button in the bookmark section.

You can remove a single bookmark by visiting a lesson you’ve bookmarked and clicking the “bookmark” button again to unbookmark it.

You can clear all of your bookmarks by clicking the “clear all bookmarks” button. Be careful, this will erase all of your bookmarks.

Log in to save bookmarks.

Class Summary

Students should leave the class familiar with the concept of the main idea and supporting details in a piece of writing.

Lesson Slide

1G16 – Main Idea and Supporting Details

Main Teaching Points

  • Explain: The main idea is the most important idea. To find the main idea, we can ask ourselves: What are they writing about?
  • Show: Lesson slides giving examples of the main idea in a piece of writing.
  • Explain: Supporting details tell the reader more about the main idea.  To find the supporting details, we can ask ourselves: What are they telling me about the main idea?

Discussion Questions

  • When we write the main idea, what are we writing?
  • What is the main idea of this essay?
  • What does a supporting detail tell us?

In-Class Activities

  • Find the main idea. Try to find the main idea in a lesson from My Book of Bible Stories. Suggested lesson: Story 4, paragraph 3.