Lesson Plan
What’s This All About? Unpacking the Main Idea!
Guide students through the challenging task of unpacking the main idea of a text.
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Learning Objectives
- With guidance, students will be able to use the details of a text to describe its main idea.
- Independently, students will sort the details from the main idea of a paragraph.
Introduction
(2 minutes)- Gather the students in your meeting area and tell them that today they will be working on figuring out the main idea. The main idea is the most important idea.
- First, they will work as a group to figure out the answer to the question: What are all the things in this box about? What do they tell a story about?