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How to Teach Main Idea

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Title:

 How to Teach Main Idea

URL:

 https://youtu.be/S-1DZWNVBT4

Content Source:

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YouTube
Type: Audio/Video

Overview:

This instructional cartoon provides an entertaining and informative animation to help introduce students to Main Idea or Main Topic.

Content Standard(s):
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 2
24. Identify the main idea and supporting details of literary and informational texts.

a. Explain how the supporting details contribute to the main idea.

b. Recount or summarize key ideas from the text.
Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
24.
  • Main idea
  • Supporting details
  • Literary text
  • Informational text
24a.
  • Explain
  • Main idea
  • Supporting details
  • Contribute
24b.
  • Recount
  • Summarize
  • Key ideas
Knowledge:
24. Students know:
  • The main idea is the most important idea presented in the text.
  • The supporting details explain the main idea or provide more information about the main idea.
24a.
  • The supporting details explain the main idea or provide more information about the main idea.
24b.
  • Key ideas are important details within a text.
  • Recount means to retell the big ideas of the text.
  • Summarize means to briefly state the big ideas of the text.
Skills:
24. Students are able to:
  • Identify the main idea in literary and informational text.
  • Identify the supporting details in literary and informational text.
24a.
  • Explain how the supporting details provide more information about the main idea.
24b.
  • Retell or summarize the most important (key) ideas from a text.
Understanding:
24. Students understand that:
  • Literary and informational texts have a main idea, or most important message, and supporting details, which provide more information about the main idea.
  • A text usually just has one main idea, but multiple supporting details.
24a.
  • The supporting details help explain the main idea or provide more information about the main idea.
24b.
  • Texts have key ideas, and they can retell or summarize these important ideas to demonstrate comprehension of the text.
Tags: main idea, main topic, reading comprehension, supporting details
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