Monday, June 29, 2009

Determining the Important Idea in Text


Determining the Importance comprehension strategy was a new one that I did this year! I had lots of fun with it too! While reading non-fiction, we practiced finding the "main idea" in text. Along with that, kids had to find important details that supported their idea. Here is chart that we created during the first few lessons. Before I gave students any type of assessment, I wanted to make sure that they were getting the idea down during their independent reading. On this chart, the kids had to write their "important sentence" on one sticky note. On the other side, they had to write two or three sentences that supported their important sentence. During share time, we went over the sticky notes in a large circle.

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