RI.5.2 — Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details.

What this standard asks students to do

RI.5.2 is a 5th grade Common Core standard in the Reading: Informational strand. It asks students to: determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details. Teachers typically address it during the key ideas and details cluster, alongside the related standards listed below. FoxFish generates printable worksheets, auto-graded quizzes, and flashcard sets aligned to this standard in seconds.

Sample questions aligned to RI.5.2

1. Example 1

   State two main ideas of the article.

2. Example 2

   Match each idea to two supporting details.

3. Example 3

   Which detail supports both main ideas?

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Common student mistakes

Build distractors and reteach prompts around the errors students actually make on this standard.

• 1Rushing to an answer without showing the work with pictures or manipulatives — 5th-grade students who skip this stage often can't debug their own errors.
• 2Mis-identifying what the prompt is actually asking. On RI.5.2, teachers see students latch onto surface keywords and quote text that doesn't answer the question.
• 3Applying a memorized procedure to a case where it doesn't fit — the classic reading: informational trap when problems change form (e.g., State two main ideas of the article.).

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Related standards in this cluster

• RL.K.1With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
• RL.K.2Retell familiar stories, including key details.
• RI.K.1With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text.
• RL.1.3Describe characters, settings, and major events in a story, using key details.
• RI.1.2Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.

Teacher guides for RI.5.2

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