The Institute for Education Sciences identifies main idea and summarization instruction as effective practices for improving adolescent students' reading comprehension. Main idea generation is a higher-level comprehension skill that requires students to read the text, connect information across the paragraph or section, determine the most important information, and put that information into their own words. Stopping to identify the most important information after reading a brief section of text supports monitoring for understanding. Generating main ideas is an important subskill for summary writing and helps students understand and learn from text. Many students struggle to generate main ideas while reading because students must actively engage in thinking about the text while reading (i.e., monitoring for meaning), determine the most important information, and eliminate irrelevant information or details. Students need proficiency in generating main ideas for smaller sections of text in order to summarize the text as a whole. For this reason, the authors focus on supporting students with reading disabilities with main idea generation.