Today we continued to discuss main idea and supporting details. With our snow day yesterday we were a bit behind so we were playing catch up. First we worked on our new word part. The prefix "un" which the kids filled out the graphic organizer that I showed in an earlier post. After the bell work we took our poetry quiz. After going over and grading these I have come to realize that I need to go back and reteach a few things.
Quiz
Back to main idea. Today we did a variety of things with how to look at, understand, and master main idea. The first thing that my students did was read a short fiction passage. Here are the pages I did in each class: ( I did not include the questions, just the passage. I attached the whole document for anyone who would like to use it for comprehension practice).
(Period 1 Collaborative)
(Period 3 Honors)
(Period 4 General Education)
Once they were done reading the passage, I had them fill out a really simple graphic organizer that looks like a hamburger. It is how I learned it in school so I figured it might work with them. Here is the graphic organizer:
After we completed this short activity, we moved on to the Main Idea bag activity. Each bag has 6 different pictures in it that represents the main idea. This activity is at a 4th-5th grade level, but I thought it would be a great way to review and practice. Here is the activity:
Since the activity is so elementary, I decided to kick it up to a middle school level. Once the students completed their assignment, I had them flip their papers over and write a 3-5 paragraph fictional story. They had to use the main idea from the bag as the main idea in their story. It had them focus on the main idea and details while composing all the other parts.
The class went well and tomorrow we start our mini main idea projects.
Have a great day/night!
Love,
Miss Cannon
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