Main Street Shopping: Main Idea Game

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Main Street Shopping: Main Idea Game

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Who will be the first to earn enough money for a fabulous shopping spree? It could be you…if you can identify the main idea! In this skill-building reading game, players try to buy items at the Main Street Mall—by reading passages and identifying the main idea. Players earn money for each question they answer correctly…as they race from store to store in search of the items they need! You get an 18" x 18" game board, 50 question cards, 24 shopping cards, 4 pawns, 1 die and an answer card. For 2-4 players.
Item # GG372

Product Type

Games

Features

Self-Checking


Fun Way to Determine Main Idea

My students love this game. It's a quick and engaging way to practice determining main idea. The students feel successful and love the competition.

Anna Knobloch

March 31, 2025

from Amarillo, TX

Great game

I played this game with my 2nd, 4th, and 6th graders. Despite being at different reading levels, they all enjoyed it. The game itself doesn't take long to set up or play. The reading passages are cute and engaging.

Jennifer Megyesi

May 09, 2023

from Phoenix, AZ

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Main Street Shopping: Main Idea Game

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6out of 6 reviewers

Fun Way to Determine Main Idea

My students love this game. It's a quick and engaging way to practice determining main idea. The students feel successful and love the competition.

Anna Knobloch

March 31, 2025

from Amarillo, TX
Yes, I would recommend this product.
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Great game

I played this game with my 2nd, 4th, and 6th graders. Despite being at different reading levels, they all enjoyed it. The game itself doesn't take long to set up or play. The reading passages are cute and engaging.

Jennifer Megyesi

May 09, 2023

from Phoenix, AZ
Yes, I would recommend this product.
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love it!

Thus is a wonderful review game. My students absolutely loved it. Even the boys were asking to play.

Deanna Petrosky

July 06, 2022

Yes, I would recommend this product.
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1 of 2 people found this review helpful

Helps teach main ide

A fun but slow-paced game for my third-graders. The passages are slightly above their reading ability. The upside is that, just like playing a better tennis partner improves one's game, Main Street Shopping will do the same for their reading skills, giving them a better understanding of main idea.

B Hatfield

January 22, 2019

from Lower Yukon, Alaska
Yes, I would recommend this product.
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2 of 2 people found this review helpful

Main Idea is Child's Play

My third grade students love playing this game to learn how to determine the main idea of a very short passage. I use it for a center during ELA block and the kids like it so much they also play it when we have indoor recess.

FunTeach

October 20, 2016

from St. Petersburg, Fl
Yes, I would recommend this product.
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3 of 3 people found this review helpful

Enjoyable

This teaches more skills than it says! Kids had to strategize where they wanted to go and how to get there before someone else took the item they wanted to buy. It also teaches them prioritizing. It was really fun to play, and it doesn't get old or monotonous.

travelingteacher

November 23, 2011

from Lawton, OK
Yes, I would recommend this product.
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6 of 7 people found this review helpful