All about Recognizing Main Ideas and About Preparing for Testing
Self-Starter for A4:
- Write your name on the green paper.
- Read the passage on the green paper.
- Below the passage label and write a one word topic for the passage. What is it about?
- Expand the topic to four or five words that tell more exactly what the passage is about. This should NOT be a complete sentence.
- Look for one sentence in the passage that tells what the whole thing is about. Underline that sentence.
(Save the Raisin)
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Self-Starter for A1, A2, A3:
1. Under Notes and Quick Writes,write for about ten minutes about one aspect of your spring break.
2. Create a title which is the topic -- one word
3. Write the main idea of your ten minute write in one sentence.
(Save the Raisin)
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Today we are going to focus on figuring out the topics and main ideas of passages.
Target: Each student should be able to recognize the topic and main idea of a passage, using clues within and around the passage.
4. Music for Main Idea on YouTube(Building a Paragraph)
or
Main Idea Song on TeacherTube
5. Clues for Finding the Topic and Main Idea
6a. Topic practice with objects and ideas -- toy, utensil,
6b. How Big is Your Topic?
A Narrow or a Broad Topic?
A4: Raisins
A4: Test Prep
Test practice
Wild Animals
Test Preparation: Silent Conversation on the Whiteboard front and back (class divided) with four markers
The Successful Test Taker
Main Idea Practice: to- Raisins (test practice with poem) with - Siv Cambodian [Where is Cambodia?] (test practice with editing) by -- Beavers or Zoo (test practice with a passage)
A1, A2, A3 did Chips, Raisins, and started Siv with notes
A3 needs test prep silent conversation
A4 did Chips, Raisins, and Beavers
Reminders:
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