A Scaffolded Approach to Helping Students Sort Main Idea and Details. Promote high-quality instruction with this teacher-developed, scaffolded resource for reading comprehension. Enhance students confidence, promote independent learning, and assist students to reach proficiency in grade-level targets with included scaffolding such as real photography visual aids, grouping symbols, visual organizers, color-coding and self-checking elements. Distinguishing the main idea and supporting details is important to comprehension development, critical thinking, and writing skills. Using the two-sided mat and picture cards, students take turns reading an assortment of related statements, determining the main idea, and supporting details, and then sorting them into those two categories. Next, students use a favorite subset of cards or their own idea to write a paragraph. Students will become mindful of main idea and supporting detail concept and verbiage in their reading, writing, speaking, and listening, especially while working in partnerships. WHAT YOU GET: 72 Cards (3.5 x 2.5), 2 Mats (11 x 8.5), 1 Task Card (6 x 9), 1 Really Good Stuff Instructional Guide (8.5 x 11). ; SCAFFOLDED: Includes scaffolding such as real photography visual aids, grouping symbols, visual organizers, color-coding and self-checking elements. ; SKILLS BASED & CREATED BY TEACHERS: This product is purposefully created by teachers who have real-world classroom experience to align to multiple learning standards. Skills covered include sorting and determining main idea and details and forming an outline for writing organization.; INDEPENDENT PRACTICE BUILDS CONFIDENCE: Children develop confidence as they complete and interact with these materials independently.; null Identifying Main Idea Identifying Supporting Details Identifying Topic Reading Comprehension Activities Main Idea Groupwork Main Idea Group Activity main idea worksheets main idea examples main idea and detail task cards