Main Idea and Details

Anchor Standard: Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.

Specific Standards:
RI.2.2 -- Identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text
RI.2.6 -- Identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.
RI.2.1 – Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text.

Lessons

Essential Questions:

  1. What is the purpose of a “Main Idea”?
  2. Without supporting details, can you have a Main Idea?
  3. How do supporting details direct you in finding the main idea of the text?
  4. When reading the text, what helps you find the main idea of the passage?
  5. It is possible to have more than one main idea in a text?

Assessments

Knowledge:
-How to find the main idea in a text
-How to identify the supporting details

Skills:
-Demonstrate understanding of key details
-Connect supporting details with the main idea
-Summarizing details help determine main ideas of the text

Formative/informal:
-Guess the main idea- the teacher draws a series of pictures on the board and each student writes what they think the main idea of those pictures are on their white boards.
-What is in the bag?- students are divided up into groups. Each group needs to decide a topic. The goal is for each group to create a mystery bag full of similar items, with one item being the key that ties them together. Present it to the class by pulling out all the items, with the key item being last. The classmate’s goal is to guess the main idea of what is in the bag.


-Main idea Worksheet: read the passage, circle the main idea, and write down the supporting details, that you read, to come up with the main idea.


-The students will complete a graphic organizer, for a selected number of short stories, after reading the short stories individually without any assistance.


-Read a nonfiction passage and be able to identify the main idea and the supporting details of the passage without any assistance. (Main idea and details worksheet)


-Write a main idea statement for every nonfiction passage they read without any assistance


-The student will be able to cross out text, in a single paragraph, that doesn’t support the main idea of the text and identify the main idea of the text by looking at the title of the text.

Summative/formal:
-Find a topic, develop the main idea, and use supporting details to create a story of their own.


-Create a poster with the main ideas and details over a text of their choosing.


-The students will create their own single paragraph text that has 3 supporting details sentences and a title that supports the main idea of their story by using the information they were taught.


-The students will create their own book with a title and 3 key important details and share it with the class to determine the main idea and details of the book they created.



Lesson #1
Have the students identify the main idea of a category (vegetables, fruits, things you wear, cars, etc.)

Lesson #4
Once they learn how to identify the main idea in a nonfiction passage move to short stories.

Bloom's Taxonomy:

Lesson 3:

Lesson 4:

Lesson 2:

Lesson 1:

Create their own single paragraph text that has 3 supporting details.

Create a main idea statement and supporting details based on their hands.

Create their own book with a title(main idea) and 3-5 pages (that consist of 3-4 supporting details)

Conceptual Lens:
Connections with text
Critical Thinking
Main idea
Supporting Details

create their own main idea statement after collecting all the objects in their bag.

Learning Goals:
-Students will understand that summarizing supporting details and ideas help determine the theme/main idea of a text.


-Students will understand that main ideas, themes, and supporting details are important when connecting to text.

Lesson #2
Find the main idea and details of single paragraph text.

Lesson #3
Move to the actual main idea with nonfiction passage first. It is easier for students to understand

Pre-assessment:
-Four Corners:- read a story and give the class 4 different answers that the main idea could be and have them go to the corner of the room of which answer they think is correct. Can do this more than once with different books.
-Worksheet-

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Technology:


Google Doc: In this lesson the students will find the main idea and details of short stories by having the students partnered up to create an outline of their own story on a Google Doc. With this activity Each group will be given a topic to write about. They first have to think of a title that will help readers understand the main idea of their story and have 3 supporting detail to talk about throughout their story. After they are finished they will create the book on the Book Creator app then read/present their book to the rest of the class.



Document Camera: The document camera will be used to help display the completed graphic organizer to the class after the class have completed the main idea and details of the created book.



iPads: The students will use their iPads to fill out a graphic organizer to help organize what the main idea and details are for their story and also to work on creating their stories individually on the Book Creator app.



SMART Board - In this lesson the students will use a smart board to present their stories to the rest of the class by using the Document camera



Video Links:
Powtoons: https://www.powtoon.com/online-presentation/e4sOVR0f3wm/main-idea-and-detials/
EDpuzzle: https://edpuzzle.com/assignments/583349118da1f9f23ebacc6b/watch


The powtoons video will be played at the beginning of the lesson to get the students excited about what they will be learning and the EDpuzzle will be played at end of the class to see if the students have finally grasp the concepts thrown out in the video.