Main Idea - Tracker

Main Ideas Tracker

Require students to note down these items, then summarise the main ideas on a page

Look at these sections                                            Main ideas in your own words

Headings

Topic sentences

Pictures or diagrams

Last paragraph                                                         Your own summary of the page ...

Paragraph Topic Sentences – Identify the Main Ideas

Match each paragraph to its topic sentence, by unjumbling them OR

Create a topic sentence which gives the main idea of each paragraph below