14 (A): Main Idea (Informational/Expository Text)

Reading/comprehension Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about expository text, and provide evidence from text to support their understanding
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10 (A) identify the topic and details in expository text heard or read referring to the words and/or illustrations	14(A) restate the main idea, heard or read	14(A) identify the main idea in a text and distinguish it from the topic	13(A) identify the details or facts that support the main idea	11(A) summarize the main ideas and supporting details in a text in ways that maintain meaning	11(A) summarize the main ideas and supporting details in a text in ways that maintain meaning and logical order
restate the main idea heard restate the main idea read

Activities:

• Use a big book and cover the headings, then have students infer what the heading should be.
• Comprehension Tool Kit (Book #6) - Lesson #19:  Summarize Information pg.2
• Using Time for Kids "Welcome to the Rainforest" or any other non-fiction text, teacher and students take notes on sticky notes or chart then organize the important information to create a summary.
• Comprehension Tool Kit (Book #6) - Lesson #20: Read to Get the Big Ideas pg. 18
• Students and Teacher infer, visualize, and ask questions in order to support synthesizing.
• Summarizing and Note Taking - A Marzano Best Teaching Practice (share what the upper grades are doing to see where the 1st graders are headed).
• http://www.readworks.com/   - requires a FREE Password. 

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