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Helping Teachers Make A Difference ® © 2014 Really Good Stuff ® 1-800-366-1920 www.reallygoodstuff.com Made in China #306002 All teaching guides can be found online. Main Idea Markup, Level 1 Congratulations on your purchase of the Really Good Literacy Center-in-a-Bag™ Main Idea Markup, Level 1, an activity that gives students the text and practice they need to identify the topic, main ideas, and supporting details in multi-paragraph informational text. This center strengthens your students’ comprehension and metacognitive skills. Meeting Common Core State Standards The Really Good Stuff Main Idea Markup, Level 1 aligns with the following English Language Arts Standards: Key Ideas and Details RI.2.2 Identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text. RI.3.2 Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea. This Really Good Stuff product includes: •5 Text Cards •5 Answer Key Cards • 16 Animal Markers (4 sets of 4 per student) •1 Center Task Card • This Really Good Stuff Teaching Guide Distinguishing the topic, main idea, and supporting details is important to comprehension development and critical thinking skills as well as writing skills. In this center, students take turns reading aloud large-print text and marking the main ideas and supporting details with their Animal Markers. They converse with each other to justify their decisions and explain how the details support the main idea. With practice, students become familiar with the general and more specific language that distinguishes a main idea from details. Next, students transfer their textual evidence to a graphic organizer (included). Students will become more mindful of topic, main idea, and supporting detail concepts and verbiage in their reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Managing the Center-in-a-Bag • Visit our Web site www.reallygoodstuff.com to download Really Good Stuff Teaching Guides. • Make copies of the Main Idea Response Sheet Reproducible, attached, and store them in the bag. • Display the Center Task Card. • Model the activity before assigning independent practice. • Demonstrate how to tidy the center when the activity is complete. • Store the center materials in the bag, and hang it alongside other Centers-in-a-Bag. Introducing Main Idea Markup, Level 1 Begin by explaining the key terms below to help students understand the important parts of a text. Quick Lesson in Topic, Main Idea, & Supporting Details • The topic is the overall subject of a piece of writing. To find the topic, ask yourself What or who is this paragraph about? • The main idea of a piece of writing is the central point the author is trying to make, or the “big idea.” It is the topic, plus the author’s point about the topic. This point can be an opinion, an argument, or a general idea. Usually the main idea is stated in a topic sentence at the beginning of a paragraph. This topic sentence establishes what the rest of the writing will be about, although sometimes authors place the main idea in the concluding sentence. To find the main idea, ask yourself What is the overall message or argument the author makes about the topic of this paragraph? • 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. Details are more specific and dig deeper than the main idea, which is more general. To find supporting details, ask yourself What details support or help to prove the author’s main point? Topics, main ideas, and supporting details work together. The topic is the overarching subject. The main idea tells the author’s point about the topic, and the details offer support for the main idea. The main idea is the overall idea of the paragraph. It is supported by details throughout the paragraph, the way the frame of a house supports its roof.
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All teaching guides can be found online.
Main Idea Markup, Level 1 Congratulations on your purchase of the Really Good Literacy Center-in-a-Bag™ Main Idea Markup, Level 1, an activity that gives students the text and practice they need to identify the topic, main ideas, and supporting details in multi-paragraph informational text. This center strengthens your students’ comprehension and metacognitive skills. Meeting Common Core State StandardsThe Really Good Stuff Main Idea Markup, Level 1 aligns with the following English Language Arts Standards:Key Ideas and DetailsRI.2.2 Identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text. RI.3.2 Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.
This Really Good Stuff product includes:•5Text Cards •5Answer Key Cards•16Animal Markers (4 sets of 4 per student)•1Center Task Card •This Really Good Stuff Teaching Guide
Distinguishing the topic, main idea, and supporting details is important to comprehension development and critical thinking skills as well as writing skills. In this center, students take turns reading aloud large-print text and marking the main ideas and supporting details with their Animal Markers. They converse with each other to justify their decisions and explain how the details support the main idea. With practice, students become familiar with the general and more specific language that distinguishes a main idea from details. Next, students transfer their textual evidence to a graphic organizer (included). Students will become more mindful of topic, main idea, and supporting detail concepts and verbiage in their reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
Managing the Center-in-a-Bag• VisitourWebsitewww.reallygoodstuff.comto
download Really Good Stuff Teaching Guides.• MakecopiesoftheMain Idea Response Sheet
Reproducible, attached, and store them in the bag.• DisplaytheCenter Task Card.• Modeltheactivitybeforeassigningindependent
practice.• Demonstratehowtotidythecenterwhenthe
activity is complete.• Storethecentermaterialsinthebag,andhang
it alongside other Centers-in-a-Bag.
Introducing Main Idea Markup, Level 1Begin by explaining the key terms below to help students understand the important parts of a text.
Quick Lesson in Topic, Main Idea, & Supporting Details• Thetopic is the overall subject of a piece of writing.
To find the topic, ask yourself What or who is this paragraph about?
• Themain idea of a piece of writing is the central point the author is trying to make, or the “big idea.” It is the topic, plus the author’s point about the topic. This point can be an opinion, an argument, or a general idea. Usually the main idea is stated in a topic sentence at the beginning of a paragraph. This topic sentence establishes what the rest of the writing will be about, although sometimes authors place the main idea in the concluding sentence. To find the main idea, ask yourself What is the overall message or argument the author makes about the topic of this paragraph?
• 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. Details are more specific and dig deeper than the main idea, which is more general. To find supporting details, ask yourself What details support or help to prove the author’s main point?
Topics, main ideas, and supporting details work together. The topic is the overarching subject. The main idea tells the author’s point about the topic, and the details offer support for the main idea. The main idea is the overall idea of the paragraph. It is supported by details throughout the paragraph, the way the frame of a house supports its roof.
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Main Idea Markup, Level 1 Model the ActivityBefore modeling, confirm that students are fluent with the terms defined on the previous page. Begin by modeling the activity, discussing each step with students. Explain that students will work as partners to read a Text Card aloud and find the main ideas and supporting details for each paragraph on the Text Card. They will take turns finding these sentences and marking them with their own set of Animal Markers, explaining how the details support the main ideas. After the main ideas and supporting sentences are marked, they will check their work with the color-coded Answer Key Card. Finally, they will transfer their thinking to the graphic organizers on the Main Idea Response Sheet Reproducible.
Invite a student to be your partner in this demonstration. Show (or project) one of the Text Cards and the two sets of Animal Markers that you will use (the hummingbird and the shark, for example). Read the title aloud and tell students that titles usually reveal the topic. Tell students that you will read on to confirm whether the title was indeed the topic. Read the passage aloud to scaffold students, and point out, with your hand and your voice, any signal words or repeated words that
help you determine the main idea. (When students work together, they will alternate reading paragraphs aloud.) Explain why you believe the sentence you chose is the main idea, then place an Animal Marker directly under the beginning of the sentence.
Next, invite your partner to find a supporting detail and mark it with his or her Animal Marker. The student must explain how the detail supports the main idea. It is your turn again, this time, to find the next supporting detail and explain how it relates to the main idea. Continue until all details are found.
Ask students if they agree that the title is the topic. Then, check the Answer Key Card. Note that the titles are the topics.
Discuss any incorrectly placed markers. Talk together about a summary for each paragraph. Finally, complete the graphic organizer using evidence from the text.
Enrichment and ExtensionThe following Main Idea Response Sheet Reproducible can be used with these Text Cards or with any authentic informational text in the classroom. The sheet allows for two paragraphs’ main ideas and supporting details and a summary for each paragraph.
Name __________________
Title ______________________Main Idea Response Sheet Reproducible
Important Terms
Topic: the one thing a paragraph is about
Paragraph: a group of sentences that focus on a single idea
Main Idea: the point the paragraph makes about a topic
Topic Sentence: the sentence that states the paragraph’s main idea
Supporting Details: the sentences that explain the topic sentence
Topic
Main Idea
Supporting Detail
Supporting Detail
Supporting Detail
Summary
1
Pa
ragraph
Topic
Main Idea
Supporting Detail
Supporting Detail
Supporting Detail
Summary
2
Pa
ragraph
____
Detail
Name __________________
Title ______________________
Main Idea Response Sheet Reproducible
Important Terms Topic: the one thing a paragraph is about
Paragraph: a group of sentences that focus on a single idea
Main Idea: the point the paragraph makes about a topic
Topic Sentence: the sentence that states the paragraph’s main idea
Supporting Details: the sentences that explain the topic sentence
Topic
Main Idea
Supporting Detail
Supporting Detail
Supporting Detail
Summary
1
Paragraph
Topic
Main Idea
Supporting Detail
Supporting Detail
Supporting Detail
Summary
2
Paragraph
Main IdeaMain Idea
SupportingDetail
SupportingDetail
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Really Good Literacy Center-in-a-BagMain Idea Markup, Level 1
2 students Object: Find the topic, mark the main idea and supporting details, explain how they relate, and summarize the text Materials:1Text Card and matching Answer Key Card, a set of 4 matching Animal Markers for each student, and a Main Idea Response Sheet Reproducible and pencil for each student
Directions:1. Place1Text Card where both students can read
it. Alternate reading paragraphs aloud. 2.Student1findsthetopicandmarksthemain
idea, using the red Main Idea Marker, and explains why that is the main idea.
3. Student 2 finds and marks a supporting detail with the blue Supporting Detail Marker and explains how it relates to the main idea.
4.Student1findsandmarksanothersupportingdetail and explains how it relates to the paragraph.
5.Student2findsandmarksanothersupportingdetail and explains how it relates to the paragraph.
6.Continueinthesamewayforthesecondparagraph.
7. Check your answers, using the matching-colored Answer Key Card.
8. Record your work on the Main Idea Response Sheet Reproducible.
9. Continue in the same way, using the text on the back or a new Text Card.
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Main Idea Response Sheet Reproducible
Name __________________Title ______________________Important Terms
Paragraph: a group of sentences that focus on a single ideaTopic: the one thing a paragraph is about Main Idea: the point the paragraph makes about a topic Topic Sentence: the sentence that states the paragraph’s main idea Supporting Details: the sentences that explain the topic sentenceSummary: a brief statement about the text's main points
Topic
Main Idea
Supporting Detail Supporting Detail Supporting Detail
Summary
1
Pa
ragraph
Topic
Main Idea
Supporting Detail Supporting Detail Supporting Detail
Summary
2
Pa
ragraph
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