Lesson Plan
Main Ideas, Please!
Your students will be introduced to the concept of a main idea in this fun lesson using props to support their thinking.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to write supporting details for a given main idea.
Introduction
(10 minutes)- Tell students that today they will be learning about a new reading concept called the main idea.
- Tell students that to help them with this, you have some items to show them.
- Show the students three boxes. One by one pull objects out of each box. All the objects in each box go with one main idea. For example, have one box with all cooking items, one with painting items, etc.
- Have students guess how the items in the box are related.