Sunday, February 17, 2013
If they can do it, WE CAN too!!!
Watch this engaging video of Common Core Literacy: Close Reading Strategies with Informational Text by Expeditionary Learning. Students in Andrew Hossack's 5th grade class use close reading strategies to determine the main idea and important details from a newspaper article about the Seneca people.
Play some On-line Games about the Main Idea
The children read some sentences and identify which would be the Main Idea. If they're correct, a hamburger magically appears!
Follow this link to another game...
http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/samoset/rcmi1.htm
Follow this link to another game...
http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/samoset/rcmi1.htm
Main Idea and Manipulatives???
Give the students a short story of sentences strips. They label the Main Idea with the blue bag and the details with the red ones. This includes TPR and color clues that are
so useful to ELLs. It's a good center activity.
Summarize to the Main Idea
After reading a story, the students can start summarizing the events. Then, do it again, but with fewer words. In the end, find one phrase that captures the Main Idea and they have a visual reminder of the selective process.
Hook the Attention with Realia!
This activity involves giving groups of students a bag of related items and they have to identify the details and determine the main idea for each bag.
From realia, the students relate to their background knowledge and determine what is the Main Idea and the Supporting Details and then complete a Graphic Organizer.
From realia, the students relate to their background knowledge and determine what is the Main Idea and the Supporting Details and then complete a Graphic Organizer.
Higher Level of Graphic Organizer
Instead, the student who is more proficient, is ready for a Higher Order of Thinking task, with less support. With this activity, the student applies everything: it's student produced, they have to write something on all of the elements, definitions are included, key words are highlighted, a title and a visual clue connect to realia. So with these choices, everyone can map out the Main Idea with supporting details and find success on their own level of proficiency.
Graphic Organizers for Main Idea
Graphic Organizers serve several purposes in the learning process.
They ease the collection of data management by visually representing relationships between facts and specific learning tasks or goals. They help the student plan what they'll write. They learn to condense their thoughts in a few words. *** ELLs often only HAVE a few words on any given topic!
Once they’ve learned how to use them and check off the info as they write, they can take ownership and produce their own.
Here are some examples...
For the student who needs more scaffolding, this G.O. is great. If an item is left blank they see they’re missing a detail. The G.O. speaks for itself.
They ease the collection of data management by visually representing relationships between facts and specific learning tasks or goals. They help the student plan what they'll write. They learn to condense their thoughts in a few words. *** ELLs often only HAVE a few words on any given topic!
Once they’ve learned how to use them and check off the info as they write, they can take ownership and produce their own.
Here are some examples...
For the student who needs more scaffolding, this G.O. is great. If an item is left blank they see they’re missing a detail. The G.O. speaks for itself.
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