Main+Ideas+and+Details

==**__**Main Idea and Details**__** == TEKS
 * Identify the details or facts that support the main idea
 * Paraphrase the themes and supporting details of fables, legends, myths, or stories;

The main idea of a piece of writing is the central point the author tries to make. This can be an opinion, argument, or a general idea. Most of the time, but not always, the main idea is stated in a topic sentence. This sentence is usually near the beginning and sets up what the rest of the writing will be about, although authors may chose place the main idea in the concluding sentence in a paragraph. The topic sentence not only sets up the thesis, but it also sets up tone, voice, and style. Supporting details are sentences that support the main idea. These sentences have information that helps explain and prove the author’s point. For example, a paragraph about how animals hide might have supporting details about camouflage. Strong paragraphs have clear and organized details that relate to the main idea. Transitions, descriptive adjectives, and active verbs are other elements of good writing.

==**__**Introducing Main Idea and Details:**__** ==


 * Before reading show students a bag is filled with envelope, pen, pencil, stamp and paper. Teacher will says let's pretend this is a book. What would be a good title for this book? (a) The Elephant is Hungry (b) Franklin Writes a Letter (c) Spring Has Sprung.

[|Main Idea.ppt] [|Main Ideas and Details.ppt] [|mainidea.ppt]
 * Show a Powerpoint to reinforce and explain main idea. Each of the PP's defines main idea, gives examples and time to practice picking out the main idea.
 * (If you need more assistance explaining Main Idea, show this tutorial [|Main Idea Tutorial)]


 * //Discuss Main Idea Strategies from the PowerPoints,//: Look at the pictures, look for frequently repeated words, look at the first or last sentence of each paragraph, pretend you are making a table of contents,


 * **Introduce a main idea graphic organizer.** Cover of the book you will be reading. Tell the children they will hear a story but not know the title so they will have to be very good thinkers to help figure out the main idea. It will be the children's job to use the main idea strategies we discussed to come up with a good title. While reading, discuss clues after each page. Here are some graphic organizers to choose from:

[|main idea details Graphic Organizer 2.pdf] (this is the graphic organizer we will use with a short paragraph for the Com. Ass) [|main idea details Graphic Organizer] [|Main Idea Keys] [|mainideaweb] [|Main_Idea_and_Details_Chart.pdf]
 * **Students fill in graphic organizer in groups or partners using a teacher selected story. (A paragraph with an graphic organizer has been copied for practice)**

==**__**Non Fiction Main Idea Lessons**__** ==
 * Pearson science readers and grade level that have main idea graphic organizers to go with the story, each has a teacher's guide and graphic organizer that can be reproduced or made in journal. To get to these, you can click on the book, login to Pearson, click on Science Leveled Readers and Find the title:


 * [|All About Sound] ||  || 2 ||
 * [|Earth's Ecosystems] ||  || 3 ||
 * [|Effects of Technology] ||  || 4 ||
 * <span style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Energy] ||  || 3 ||


 * <span style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Great Inventions] || 4 ||
 * <span style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|How Sound Travels] || 2 ||
 * <span style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Hurricanes] || 4 ||
 * <span style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Hurricanes and Tornadoes] || 4 ||
 * <span style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Light] || 3 ||


 * <span style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Severe Storms] || 4 ||
 * <span style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|So Much Energy!] || 3 ||
 * <span style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Sound] || 2 ||


 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Students will visit the school library and begin looking for any type of expository reading material of their choosing: magazine, Internet, book, etc. Distribute a main idea outline of "My Report" After locating an interesting article, students will individually begin filling out their outlines.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">[[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png height="32" link="http://tves3rdgradereading.wikispaces.com/file/view/Main+Idea+Outline.pdf"]] [|Main Idea Outline.pdf]


 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Talk about categories. We do categories with things like Things you Wear, Colors, Fruits, Vegetables, etc... Talk about how they are all clothing, food, etc but the broad term or main idea is that they are all vegetables, things you wear, etc.... Then we do categories with story elements. Characters - list ALL characters, Settings - list them all, etc.... Next we go into actual main idea of stories.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Use the cut and paste for students to practice their main idea and details skills.[[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png height="32" link="http://tves3rdgradereading.wikispaces.com/file/view/Main+Idea+Detail+Cut+and+Paste+Practice.pdf"]] [|Main Idea Detail Cut and Paste Practice.pdf]


 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Use kids page from local paper as well as Scholastic type newspaper/magazines and have them laminated. Sticky notes for the Main Idea (yellow), 3 supporting facts (pink), and one like and one dislike about the article (blue). Also included copies of ready to use graphic organizers for "Main Idea"! I Give options in style for the graphic organizers, to give the kiddos some choice.


 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Draw a diagram of a hand. The main idea goes on the palm. The topic sentece is written on the thumb. Four other details are written on the fingers. You can also have them draw the wrist and a "bracelet" which has a summary sentence on it.


 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Kite Tales. The main idea was a kite cut from construction paper. Next you glue a piece of yarn on for the tail. We had the children then Write 3 sentences and tape or glue the "ribbons" on the tail.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">[[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png height="32" link="http://tves3rdgradereading.wikispaces.com/file/view/main+idea+practice.pdf"]] [|main idea practice.pdf]
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">This is a full lesson plan about looking for key words to help find the main idea.[[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/pdf.png height="32" link="http://tves3rdgradereading.wikispaces.com/file/view/Main+Idea+Lesson+2+.pdf"]] [|Main Idea Lesson 2 .pdf]
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">[[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/msword.png height="32" link="http://tves3rdgradereading.wikispaces.com/file/view/Using+first-last+sentence+to+Determine+Importance.doc"]] [|Using first-last sentence to Determine Importance.doc]
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">[[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/msword.png height="32" link="http://tves3rdgradereading.wikispaces.com/file/view/Using+Repeated+Words+to+Determine+Importance.doc"]] [|Using Repeated Words to Determine Importance.doc]

==<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**__**Fiction Main Idea Lessons:**__** == A main idea may be a big situation facing the characters (such as a war, or a journey to discover new land), and how they reacted. Or, a main idea can be a lesson learned in reading the story. Sometimes a single sentence tells the story's main lesson. Examples: In the story of the Three Little Pigs, the lesson is that those who prepare carefully will be safe through all kinds of dangers. Another way to tell the lesson is this -- when a person only plays and wastes time, someday he will be very sorry for not preparing wisely for the future.

– Paragraph _ __is mostly/mainly about__ __?__ __ – What is paragraph ____mostly/mainly about? – What are paragraphs ___ and ___mostly/mainly about? – Paragraph ___ mainly tells about ? – The section (a subtitle) called “ ” is mostly about ___?__ __ - This article is mostly/mainly about ___? - What is the main idea of paragraph _? -
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Read "The Important Book". It's a simple picture book that takes ordinary objects and uses a cool format to introduce the important thing (main idea) and the details about the objects.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Story Mapping Strategy]
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Have students make a paragraph mobile. They can write a topic sentence on a large piece of construction paper, foam block, or cardboard canister. Then they can write supporting details on smaller pieces and dangle them from the main idea. You may wish to have a list of suggested topics or have students research on their own. Have each student make a presentation of their mobile in front of the class. Then display the mobiles in the classroom so students can share their work.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Set the purpose for listening. “There are three sentences on the board. All are about things that happen in the story I am about to read to you. As you listen try to decide which sentence tells the main idea of this story, the most important. Try to choose a sentence you would tell someone if they asked you what this story was all about.” • Read the selection. • Have the children volunteer choices for main idea; have them explain why that choice seems to tell what the story is mainly about and why the others don’t • Give the children sheets with three sentences and a story. Tell them to read to determine which of these sentences tells the main idea.
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">[[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/msword.png height="32" link="http://tves3rdgradereading.wikispaces.com/file/view/Using+first-last+sentence+to+Determine+Importance.doc"]] [|Using first-last sentence to Determine Importance.doc]
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">[[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/msword.png height="32" link="http://tves3rdgradereading.wikispaces.com/file/view/Using+Repeated+Words+to+Determine+Importance.doc"]] [|Using Repeated Words to Determine Importance.doc]
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">[[image:http://www.wikispaces.com/i/mime/32/application/x-zip.png height="32" link="http://tves3rdgradereading.wikispaces.com/file/view/main+idea+.docx"]] [|main idea .docx]
 * T__AKS Like Questions:__**

==<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**__**Links:**__** ==


 * 1) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Main]  Idea Description
 * 2) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Main]  Idea Practice
 * 3) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Main Idea practice]  - online interactive
 * 4) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Main Idea Tutorial]
 * 5) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Identify the main idea]
 * 6) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">Get The Idea - [ this page opens in a new window ] read text to determine the main idea or essential message and identify relevant supporting details and facts
 * 7) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Main Idea Mini Lesson] followed by interactive quizzes.
 * 8) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Main Idea practice] - eight online interactive quizzes on Main Idea from the Manatee School District [ click on a **red** dot ]
 * 9) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Main Idea] - Read the paragraph and select the main idea.
 * 10) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Main Idea and Details Song]
 * 11) <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.wikispaces.com/i/a.gif); background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[|Main Idea Song]

==<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**__**Books:**__** ==

==<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">**__**Assessment:**__** == Common Assessment: Students will read a short nonfiction paragraph from a science leveled reader and fill in the graphic organizer with the main idea and details. (copies sent out). Scoring the graphic organizer:

__**Main Idea Scoring Rubric/Criteria 100 POINTS POSSIBLE**__

//Main Idea Part of Graphic Organizer 70 Points Possible:// 70 points-Main Idea is right on target (ex: Matter changes with temperature) 60 points-Main Idea is broad/vague but on topic (ex: Matter Changes) 50 points-Main Idea is very broad but on topic (ex: Matter) 40 points- Main Idea is a supporting detail (ex: Evaporation...) 20 points- I tried but I am totally off topic!!!

//Supporting Details Part of Graphic Organizer 30 Points Possible:// 30 points- 3 supporting details 20 points-2 supporting details 10 points-1 supporting detail