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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!

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Title:

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!

URL:

https://aptv.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/reduce-reuse-recycle-what-is-air/reduce-reuse-recycle/

Content Source:

PBS

Type:

Interactive/Game

Overview:

Save the Earth from all kinds of waste and trash. Rap with Mister C, read charts with a landfill rat, break the code for recycling symbols, then share this dirty, rotten, self-paced lesson with your friends.

This resource guides students as they identify the main idea and support details of a text.

Content Standard(s):

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.
English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 3	23. Identify and use text features in informational passages to locate information. Examples: headings, photographs, illustrations, labels, charts, graphs, legends a. Explain how text features support details in the text. b. Explain how illustrations contribute to meaning in a story. c. Interpret text features used in written and digital formats. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: 23. Text features Locate Informational passage Identify 23a. Explain Text features Supporting details Text 23b. Explain Illustrations Contribute Meaning in a story 23c. Interpret Text features Written formats Digital formats Knowledge: 23. Students know: Informational passages often include text features that can be used to locate information within the text. 23a. Text features can provide additional or clarifying information about details in a text. 23b. Illustrations included with a story can contribute to the story's meaning. 23c. Text features can be used in printed (written) and digital text. Skills: 23. Students are able to: Identify text features in informational passages, such as headings, photographs, illustrations, labels, charts, graphs, legends. Use text features to locate information within an informational passage. 23a. Identify text features and explain how the text features supports details in a text. 23b. Identify an illustration and explain how it contributes to the meaning of the story. 23c. Interpret text features presented in a digital format. Interpret text features presented in a written format. Understanding: 23. Students understand that: Informational passages have predictable features that can be used to locate important information within the text. Text features that are often used in informational text include headings, photographs, illustrations, labels, charts, graphs, and legends. Using text features helps support their overall comprehension. 23a. An author chooses to include text features to provide additional information, clarify information, or enhance ideas with in a text. Using text features supports their comprehension of details in a text. 23b. Authors and illustrators choose to include illustrations to enhance the meaning of the story provided in the text. 23c. Text features are often included in written (printed) text and digital text. In either format, text features can be used to locate information or enhance overall comprehension.
English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 4	21. Explain how relevant details support the implied or explicit main idea of a text. a. Determine the central idea or theme of a text. b. Explain the difference between implied and explicit details. c. Summarize the key supporting details by citing evidence from a text. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: 21. Implied main idea Explicit main idea Relevant details 21a. Central idea Theme 21b. Implied detail Explicit detail 21c. Summarize Key supporting details Citing Evidence Knowledge: 21. 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. 21a. Theme is the main, recurring idea in a text. 21b. An author can directly state details, or an author can include details that require the reader to make inferences. 21c. A summary is a short statement explaining the main point or most important details of a text. Skills: 21. Students are able to: Identify the implied or explicit main idea of a text. Use relevant details to support the main idea of a text. 21a. Determine the central idea or theme of a text. 21b. Identify implied and explicit details and explain how they are different. 21c. Cite evidence from the text to create a summary of a text's most important details. Understanding: 21. Students understand that: Most 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 through details in the text to imply the main idea. 21a. The central idea or theme of a text is conveyed through details in the text. 21b. An author can choose to explicitly state details in the text or provide details that require the reader to infer the details. 21c. A summary is a short explanation of the most important details from a text, and statements in a summary should be supported with textual evidence.
English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 4	23. Evaluate how text features and structures contribute to the meaning of an informational text. a. Identify and describe the structures within a text, including description, comparison and contrast, sequence, problem and solution, and cause and effect. b. Interpret information from text features in both print and digital formats. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: 23. Text features Text structures Informational texts 23a. Description Comparison and contrast Sequence Problem and solution Cause and effect 23b. Text features Print format Digital format Knowledge: 23. Students know: Informational text often includes text features, such as graphs, charts, diagrams, photographs, etc., to help readers better understand the information in the text. Informational text often follows a predictable text structure. 23a. Informational text often follows a particular text structure and understanding the types of text structure can help improve comprehension. A text that follows a description structure will provide facts and details about a topic. A text that follows a comparison and contrast structure will describe how two or more things are alike or different. A text that follows a sequence text structure will describe events that occurred in chronological order. Problem and solution text structure describes a problem and how the problem was solved or could be solved. Cause and effect text structure describes an event (the cause) and the consequence or result of the event (the effect). 23b. Text features are items like charts, graphs, diagrams, time lines, animations, or interactive elements on Web pages. Text features can provide additional information or enhance understanding of the text. Skills: 23. Students are able to: Identify and describe how text features contribute to the meaning of informational text. Identify and describe how text structure contributes to the meaning of informational text. 23a. Identify the type of text structure a text follows. Describe characteristics of the text structure. 23b. Identify text features in print and digital formats. Explain the meaning of text features in print and digital formats. Understanding: 23. Students understand that: Text features are often included in informational text to help readers better understand the author's intended meaning and message. Informational texts often follow a predictable text structure, and identifying the structure of a text can improve comprehension. 23a. Texts follow a predictable structure that contributes to the overall meaning of the text. 23b. Text features can be found in printed and digital text materials. Text features often provide important information about details in the text or can enhance understanding of details in the text.
English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 5	22. Determine the implied and/or explicit main idea in literary and informational texts. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: 22. Implied main idea Explicit main idea Literary text Informational text Knowledge: 22. 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. Skills: 22. Students are able to: Identify the implied or explicit main idea of a text. Understanding: 22. Students understand that: Most texts have a main idea, or most important message. An author can choose to state the main idea in the text or provide clues through details in the text to imply the main idea.
English Language Arts ELA2021 (2021) Grade: 5	24. Determine and evaluate the effectiveness of digital and print text features and structures, including comparison and contrast, problem and solution, and cause and effect. a. Identify various text features used in diverse forms of text. b. Compare and contrast the overall structure of events, ideas, concepts, or information in multiple texts. Unpacked Content Teacher Vocabulary: 24. Determine Evaluate Effectiveness Digital text features Print text features Text structures Comparison and contrast Problem and solution Cause and effect 24a. Text features 24b. Compare Contrast Events Ideas Concepts Information Knowledge: 24. Students know: Text features are items like charts, graphs, diagrams, time lines, animations, or interactive elements on Web pages. Text features can provide additional information or enhance understanding of the text. Text can be structured in different ways, depending on the type of information that is being communicated. A text that follows a comparison and contrast structure will describe how two or more things are alike or different. Problem and solution text structure describes a problem and how the problem was solved or could be solved. Cause and effect text structure describes an event (the cause) and the consequence or result of the event (the effect). 24a. Text features are items like charts, graphs, diagrams, time lines, animations, or interactive elements on Web pages. Text features can provide additional information or enhance understanding of the text. 24b. Compare means tell how things are alike or similar, and contrast means tell how things are different. There will be similarities and differences among the structure of events, ideas, concepts, and information across multiple texts. Skills: 24. Students are able to: Identify digital and print text features and structures. Evaluate the effectiveness of digital and print text features and structures in communicating the intended meaning. 24a. Identify text features in varied forms of texts. 24b. Identify similarities between the structure of events, ideas, concepts, or information in two or more texts. Identify differences between the structure of events, ideas, concepts, or information in two or more texts. Understanding: 24. Students understand that: Text features can be found in printed and digital text materials. Text features often provide important information about details in the text or can enhance understanding of details in the text. Texts follow a predictable structure that contributes to the overall meaning of the text. They can demonstrate comprehension of the text by evaluating on the purpose and effectiveness of the text features and structure the author chose to use. 24a. Text features often provide important information about details in the text or can enhance understanding of details in the text. 24b. Comparing and contrasting multiple texts helps them better comprehend the texts and synthesize information from multiple sources.

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Main Idea, Read Alouds, Supporting Details

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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!