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Grade 11, Language Arts Std # 1.12: Identify supporting details Identify details that support main idea(s) in one or more passages

Lesson Plans: Very Good Fare Activities for a Sixteen Day Unit using mysteries to teach critical reading skills Summary, Note-taking, Main Idea, and Detail The lesson takes notes from oral reading, simulating class lecture, for the purpose of extracting main idea and details and transcribing them into a summary. What's the Big Idea? The mini-lessons focus on three key areas: students will work at understanding the key points (or "main ideas") of the recent current events. They will use a crossword puzzle to identify important details in the news, and they will get a look at the historical context of the tensions with Iraq. Main Idea and Supporting Details Students learn to identify main ideas and supporting details from within a short reading selection.

Resources: Episodic Notes A handout to help identify plot and supporting details Logging Up Reading Mileage! Personal reading ideas with many supporting achievement outcomes and assessments Englishcompanion.com Under the Room 82 section, see links to How to Read a Poem, Short Story, etc., for handy printable guides Suggestions for English Language Learners: ESL Ideas (B=Beginning, I=Intermediate, T=Transitional) (B) For non-speaking ESL students, see Language Guide for an on-line picture dictionary with pronunciations for English practice. See Logos Translator Site or Universal Dictionary for translation resources. (I, T) Students complete a graphic organizer listing the topic sentence and supporting sentences of a given paragraph.
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