Non-Fiction Main Idea IEP Goals | Templates & Examples

Many text comprehension goals focus on fiction because understanding sequencing, characters, and motivations is a foundational comprehension skill. But by middle school, most of what students are reading outside of their English classes is non-fiction. They need to know how to read text books and how to weed through information to write reports and craft presentations. They need to be able to figure out the main ideas in what they read and what the details are– skills that also help them write paragraphs and, eventually, essays and reports. That’s where these goals come in. At every grade level, the Common Core has a standard on main ideas and details– and we have crafted goals on each for elementary, middle, and high school students.