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Slime Lab

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Title:

 Slime Lab

URL:

 https://www.roomrecess.com/games/SlimeLab/play.html

Content Source:

 Other
Room Reccess
Type: Interactive/Game

Overview:

Understanding how to support a point is important both in reading and writing. In Slime Lab, you're in control of a crazy scientist with a slime gun. His laboratory is overrun by robots and other traps. Try and find all 3 supporting details for the main idea through 10 levels of sci-fi adventure.

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.
English Language Arts
ELA2021 (2021)
Grade: 3
19. Determine the explicit or implied main idea and supporting details of a text.

a. Explain how supporting details contribute to the main idea, using textual evidence.

b. Recount or summarize the key ideas from the text.

Unpacked Content
Teacher Vocabulary:
19.
  • Explicit main idea
  • Implied main idea
  • Supporting details
19a.
  • Supporting details
  • Main idea
  • Textual evidence
19b.
  • Recount
  • Summarize
  • Key ideas
Knowledge:
19. Students know:
  • The main idea is the most important idea presented in the text.
  • Sometimes an author will clearly state the main idea, while other times an author will merely suggest the main idea.
  • The supporting details explain the main idea or provide more information about the main idea.
19a.
  • The supporting details explain the main idea or provide more information about the main idea.
  • Textual evidence is quotations from the text that are used to provide information.
19b.
  • 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:
19. Students are able to:
  • Identify the main idea in of a text.
  • Determine if the main idea is explicitly stated or implies.
  • Identify the supporting details of a text.
19a.
  • Explain how the supporting details provide more information about the main idea, using evidence from the text.
19b.
  • Retell or summarize the most important (key) ideas from a text.
Understanding:
19. 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.
  • An author can choose to state the main idea in the text or provide clues to imply the main idea.
  • A text usually just has one main idea, but multiple supporting details.
19a.
  • The supporting details help explain the main idea or provide more information about the main idea.
19b.
  • Texts have key ideas, and they can retell or summarize these important ideas to demonstrate comprehension of the text.
Tags: comprehension, main idea, supporting details
License Type: Public Domain
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