Teacher Resources for Instructional Planning


Grade 6, Language Arts Standard #: 12 Recognize the use of textual elements, including main idea and supporting details, and gain information from various texts formats, including graphs.

Lesson Plans: Teachers' Handbook of Lesson Plans Main idea and supporting details lesson plans geared toward GED students that are appropriate for middle school students. Main Ideas and Supporting Details Identifying main idea and supporting details using non fiction materials. Review Basketball Using paper basketballs to help with comprehension of classroom readings

Resources: Story Maps and Boxes Using story maps to review parts of the story 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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