Reading Homework Review - Main Idea and Summarizing - Common Core Aligned

This resource is a weekly review of main idea and summarizing. This can be used for homework, morning work, or classwork. It would be perfect to use during an informational unit or after the unit for reinforcement.

About the Main Idea & Summarizing Reading Homework

This resource contains 4 informational passages written at two levels.

One passage is meant to be used for an entire week. There is a different assignment each day with the same passage. The students will revisit the passage each day to complete the daily assignment. This will support a deeper understanding of the text and provide the student a chance to practice close reading of a text.

This gives you FOUR weeks of reading homework.

There are 3 options for the daily assignments for you to choose from based on your students' needs. A blank directions page, if you want to write in your own directions for the daily assignments, is also included.

For each option, Monday through Wednesday are general, open-ended responses to the text, and Thursday is a set of text-dependent questions specific to each story. The Thursday questions are a mix of multiple-choice and short answer for this set.

Follow these steps to assign the review work:

1. Choose and print the directions and passage level you want to use.

2. Print the Thursday comprehension questions.

3. Staple the three pages and you have a week’s worth of review ready for your students.

An answer key with suggested answers is included.

Informational Topics Include:

• Sea Turtles
• Tornadoes
• Ostriches
• Icebergs

Common Core Alignment:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.4.2 Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.5.2 Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text.