Teacher Resources for Instructional Planning


Grade 7, Reading and Language Arts Std #: 18 Recognize the use of textual elements, including main idea and supporting details, and gain information from various texts formats, including graphs.

Lesson Plans: Using Charts and Graphs to Present Information Gaining knowledge from graphs in the newspaper Graphing Rhythms Graphing names using musical notes and syllables 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: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Name That Literary Element Interactive game Supporting Details Information to assist in recognizing supporting details Suggestions for English Language Learners: ESL Ideas (B=Beginning, I=Intermediate, T=Transitional) (B, I) Students draw pictures that illustrate cause and effect or conclusions they made about the reading. (I, T) Students complete a graphic organizer listing the topic sentence and supporting sentences of a given paragraph. (I, T) Students locate comic strips (preferably from the Sunday paper) and cut them into separate frames. Students exchange groups of comic strip frames and place them in the correct sequential order. Students then read the newly sequenced comic strip to the class to check for correct order. Teacher reviews comic strips before activity to assure appropriate language proficiency levels. (B, I) Students draw a picture of an event or describe a character in a story the class is assigned to read to show understanding of the story.
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