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Lesson Plan

Super Survival Skills

Hone your students' close reading skills by using this interesting and fun lesson that teaches your class survival skills in an informational text.
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Learning Objectives

Students will identify main topics and supporting details in an informational text and organize the details by using a graphic organizer.

Introduction

(25 minutes)
  • Explain to students that they will be learning how to organize main ideas and supporting details by reading about survival skills.
  • Have students brainstorm with a partner some survival skills they know and to make a list on a sheet of paper.
  • Have volunteers share a few items from their list until all ideas from the class are shared.
  • Tell students that you would like them to watch a video on how to identify edible plants in the wild which is an important survival skill.
  • Watch Foolproof Wild Edible Plants #1.