Here are four steps to teach your middle school students how to find the central idea of informational text. It's a step by step method you can follow to determine the central idea.

Teach elementary students how to identify the central idea/main topic/main idea and relevant/supporting details with picture books

Here are four steps to teach your middle school students how to find the central idea of informational text. It's a step by step method you can follow to determine the central idea.

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Teach elementary students how to identify the central idea/main topic/main idea and relevant/supporting details with picture books

Wow, what a busy week! We took our toddler to see family in Kansas...a 9 hour car trip, talk about hard! He was a champ though and we had a blast! Time for moving into my classroom is getting close! I cannot wait to get started! I have been thinking though, the last 2 years I have taught reading, writing and social studies; this year I will go back to being self-contained. I am very excited about teaching all subjects again and having only 22 children BUT I realized I need to get busy preparing for math again! This past year, I created a Choice Board Bundle to use with my kids when they are finished with work, or when they had mastered a skill and did not need the re-teach time. I decided to create a Math Choice Board as well for this coming year. Here is a picture of it! The choice board allows students to have a variety of activities that they can do independently but also be challenged. I do not like to "waste" time in my classroom. Students need to know the expectations for when they are finished. I like to have my students complete a square and then color it in. When they complete 5 in a row, they get a prize. However, I check their work to make sure they are not saying they did it when they did not. The kids LOVE these! Give it a whirl! Oh, and the activities can be adjusted for different grade levels! :)

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Use this Central Idea Anchor Chart | Notes | One Pager to teach Central Idea and Main idea or to review Central and Main Idea with your students! This Central and Main Idea Anchor Chart and Notes Page is perfect for students' notebooks, folders, or binders. Central and Main Idea can be difficult to ...

I like using Gerald McDermott's Native American folktales to teach the Common Core literature standards. The trickster tales are always a delight!

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Want to introduce main idea in a way your students will love and remember? These main idea interactive notebook pages are just what you're looking for! They offer a hands-on, engaging approach to teaching central idea that your students won't forget. The visual of the pop-up desk graphic organizer will help your students understand how supporting evidence "holds up" the central idea of a text. Plus, the students will LOVE creating it! This notebook doesn't just give you interactive pages to use with your students. It also gives you tools to help you plan a fun, engaging unit. What's Inside: ⭐ Interactive Notebook Pages That Include: Mini Interactive Anchor Charts for Main Idea and Central Idea 3D Main Idea Foldable to Help Students Understand How Supporting Details "Hold Up" the Main Idea 2 Main Idea Interactive Notebook Pages for Use with Any Text 3D Central Idea Foldable to Help Students Understand How Supporting Details "Hold Up" the Central Central 2 Central Idea Interactive Notebook Pages for Use with Any Text Short text for Main Idea (The same text is presented with a Central Idea title as well.) Versions Compatible with Google Slides™ are Provided for Each of the Interactive Notebook Pages to help you move seamlessly between in-person and virtual learning as needed. ⭐ Resources to Help You Plan: Book List for Main Idea/ Central Idea Lesson Ideas for Teaching Central Idea/ Main Idea Explanations and Examples Please take a look at the preview to see examples of the main idea notebook pages in use. And please let me know if you have any questions. ⭐ What Other Buyers Are Saying: "I taught summer school and needed some reinforcement activities for teaching main idea and supporting details. This was perfect. This was hands-on, so students thought it was fun and engaging. It assisted with their understanding and retaining of main idea/support details. Thank you for the resource!" "This was a great resource to introduce central idea and supporting details. My students loved the interactive notebook portions." "My students were engaged the whole time. Thank you." "My students loved these and the visual representation was great!" "Loved this and it correlates with the TEKS. Definitely recommend." _________________________________________________________________________________ ⭐ Save by purchasing this in the bundle: The Reading Interactive Notebook ⭐ What Others Have Said About The Reading Interactive Notebook: "This resource has been such a stress reliever for me!! Whenever I am ready to start a new unit, I just go search and see what resources there are. I like that there are several options for each skill." "After buying a few of the pieces separately, I finally purchased the entire notebook for my centers. It is a great rotation that reinforces the skills students are already learning." "WE love this resource in my classroom. It helps to put reading skills in easy terms for my students. They love the visual to refer back to. Well worth the investment in this resource!" _________________________________________________________________________________ ✨ All my new products are 50% off for the first 24 hours. Click here to follow my store and receive notifications when I create something new so you don't miss out on the savings. I’d love to hear from you if you have any questions, issues, or requests! ❤ Laura Heinen [email protected] cultivatingcriticalreaders.com _________________________________________________________________________________ ✨ Leave a review to get TPT credit to use on future purchases: Each time you give feedback, TPT gives you feedback credits that you use to lower the cost of your future purchases. You can easily do this by clicking the "Provide Feedback" button next to the items you've purchased on your "My Purchases" page.

WHY TEACH STUDENTS TO FIND THE MAIN IDEA? Being able to find the main idea and supporting details of a text is a complex and important nonfiction reading skill for upper elementary students (3rd-5th grade). "Learning

{Affiliate links used.} {NOTE: This is a re-post with added information and ideas.} I love making language learning into a game if possible. Even if the activity we are doing isn't really a game, dice give a hands-on experience to what we are practicing in the language. There are several types of dice that I use when teaching. Dice Within Dice are great for practicing sentence constructions, verb conjugations, and adjective/noun agreement. On my whiteboard I will normally make two lists. COLOR 1. Uds. 2. yo 3. Carla y yo 4. ella 5. tu 6. Ud. BLANCO 1. decir la verdad 2. hacer la tarea 3. pedir la comida 4. encontrar un gato en la calle 5. salir con amigos 6. perder los libros Students takes turns rolling their "Die within a Die" and creating a sentence. For example, if a student rolled a "2" for the colored die and a "4" for the white die, the sentence she would need to come up with would be "Yo encuentro un gato en la calle." One way to mix this activity up a bit is for the teacher to participate. I roll the dice and then say the sentence, but I don't always do it correctly. It is the students' job to figure out if the sentence is "correcto" or "incorrecto". This method could be done with lots of types of sentences. Here are some ideas: -Subjects and adjectives {Ella es flaca.} Great for practicing noun/adjective agreement. -Subjects and items we know. {Ella sabe bailar. or Yo conozco a la profesora.} This is great for practicing the difference between saber and conocer. -Subjects and adjectives-some that take ser and other estar. {Nosotros estamos aburridos. or Uds. son altos.} -Even more complex sentences can be done if you give the students three dice (or one die within a die and a single separate die). For example... Subjects-objects-recipients of the objects {Yo le doy la bici a Ricardo.} Or use double object pronouns...{Yo se la doy.} -Also with three dice: Subject-preposition-place {Yo estoy a la derecha de la silla.} -With four dice or two dice within dice... subject-verb that takes subjunctive-subject-second verb {Yo quiero que Carlos haga la cama.} -Or how about practicing different verb tenses? Use three regular dice...Subject-verb-tense to see if your students can conjugate into the correct mood or tense. NOTE: Sometimes when working with big groups of students I break them down into groups of four and have them write down the sentences they create to have a record of what they did in their groups. Blank White Dice hold a plethora of possibilities!! You could write subject pronouns on them to work with sentence building. Or maybe you want to write the names of tenses on them to use. Another idea is to write the infinitives of verbs especially the irregular ones that need tons of practice. Number Dice are great for practicing saying the numbers out of order. It is great when a student can learn to count in Spanish or another language, but the true test is when they can see the number and tell you what it is. Sure, students for awhile might have to "count up" to tell you the number, but the more they practice the easier it gets. I use one to four of these dice and have them roll them all at once. Then they have to line them up and tell me what number they have. Great for older students needing to practice higher numbers like 4,350 or 1,642. Another option is to have a group of number dice on the table and then call out a number that the student then has to create with the dice. Math Operation Dice along with regular dice can be used to do math problems in the target language. More teaching ideas at 31 Days of Teaching Tips for Language Learning.

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I like using Gerald McDermott's Native American folktales to teach the Common Core literature standards. The trickster tales are always a delight!

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Here are four steps to teach your middle school students how to find the central idea of informational text. It's a step by step method you can follow to determine the central idea.

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