Grade 3 · Extra practiceMain idea
Recycling Day
Students identify how repeated details support a main idea about a school routine.
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Print the pages for offline work together; the answer key is for you.
Ask your child to find two details that show students are becoming more careful.
Recycling Day
Every Friday, our school has recycling day. Each classroom keeps a blue bin near the door for clean paper and empty bottles. Before lunch, two students check the bin and carry it to the hallway. The custodian rolls a large cart from room to room. Students empty their bins into the cart and make sure trash stays out. Recycling day helps our school in several ways. It keeps useful materials from going into the trash. It also reminds students to think before throwing something away. Our teacher says that small choices can become good habits when we repeat them. The class made posters to show what belongs in the bin. We also practiced flattening boxes so more items could fit. At first, some students forgot and put snack wrappers in the recycling. Now we check the bin before it leaves the room. Students have become more careful during snack and art time. They even remind each other to reuse paper scraps first. Recycling day is more than a weekly chore. It teaches students to care for the school and make thoughtful choices about waste.
What this lesson checks
- Main idea: What is the main idea of the passage?
- Supporting detail: Which detail supports the main idea?
- Explain evidence: Explain how details from the passage support the main idea.
- Supporting detail: Choose two key details from the passage that support the main idea.