Welcome to Reading Class!October 18, 2011

Objective: Students will identify and apply 5 specific strategies to distinguish the main idea

and summarize text.

Vocab.

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What does it mean to find the main idea?

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25% 25%25%25%1. Identify all the details in a text

2. Identify the major topic of a text

3. Visualize the text4. Rewrite the topic

sentence

Which reading strategy goes hand-in- hand with main idea?

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25% 25%25%25%1. Visualizing/Imaging2. Connecting3. Preview/Predict4. Summarizing

Summarizing Main Idea

Major Topic/Key Point

Strategies for Summarizing/Finding Main Idea

• Ideas from first and last sentence• Transitions• Repeated words• Similar words• Details

Open Reader’s Journey to page 239

• Read paragraph

• 10 minutes to work with a partner and complete diagram for main idea/summarizing.

• Try to do the key point triangle, too

Formative Assessment

• Turn to page 250 in your Reader’s Journey

• Read Jackie Robinson at the top and fill-out diagram for text