Lesson Plan
How to Find the Main Idea
Get ready to develop important comprehension skills! Students will read different informational passages and learn to identify the main idea. They will then use their knowledge of main ideas to write their own informational passages.
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Learning Objectives
Students will identify the main idea in nonfiction texts.
Introduction
(5 minutes)- Hold up a few nonfiction books. Ask students what the topic of each book is.
- Explain that books not only have a topic, but the chapters and even paragraphs have topics. Thinking about the main topics of texts helps us understand what the texts are about.
Beginning:
- Activate background knowledge by reminding students what a main topic is.
- Model how to determine the main topic of a text.
Intermediate: Model how chapters and paragraphs can have main topics.