Main Idea and Supporting Details Activities: The Selfie Monster

Do your students need a break from traditional main idea and supporting details worksheets? Rap songs are your solution!

Based on history and reading rap songs, these activities will keep your students' attention using song lyrics as reading passages while they practice main idea and supporting details skills. Easily incorporate them into independent activities or complete them together as a class lesson. The song lyrics for these activities are used as reading passages and have many content-vocabulary words from the song lyrics for students to practice main idea and supporting details.

Teach reading skills to your students in a way that they will enjoy!

Kids love music and will certainly enjoy main idea and supporting details in the song lyrics. These activities also feature simple explanations of how main idea and supporting details can guide students' comprehension.

Multiple-choice questions with answer keys!

All of these activities have multiple-choice questions with answer keys for easy grading.

Everything included in this resource is listed below. 

- the song lyrics for use as a reading passage

- What's the main idea?

• - Organizing details

• - 6 Find the main idea

• - 3 Find the supporting details

• - Main idea on beast mode

• - Main idea on beast mode graphic organizer

• - turn and talk

• ***Answer keys included.

1 PDF with 12 ready to print pages