Are you looking for a high interest lesson to teach your students how to identify the central idea and supporting details in a non-fiction text? The Central Idea and Supporting Details Digital Bundle includes four separate products designed to help students determine the central idea in a nonfiction text. Each scaffolded lesson includes everything you need to introduce your students to this challenging concept during distance learning or in-person classes.
Students will love reading this nonfiction article that centers around a relevant and engaging topics! Not to mention that this lesson give students several opportunities to collaborate with their classmates in a verbal and digital format.
Teachers will love this lesson because it includes everything that is needed to teach students how to determine central idea and supporting details. Students will use a double column notes organizer to help them tackle the nonfiction article, which is chunked into four different sections. Each section includes a separate subheading that students will use to create a question and then closely read that section of text to find evidence to answer their self-generated question.
Each resource includes the following files:
1. Central Idea and Supporting Details Lesson (Google Slides):
• Central Idea Mini Lesson
• Academic Vocabulary Activity
• Close Reading Activity with a Non-Fiction article
• Central Idea and Supporting Details Graphic Organizer
2. Assessment (Google Forms): This assessment includes five multiple choice questions that focus on Context Clues, Central Idea and Supporting Details. Each multiple choice question requires students to write a justification to prove their answer is correct by using evidence from the text. In addition, the assessment also includes a constructed response question where students have to identify the central idea of the text and use textual evidence to support their evidence.
3. Objective Summary Extension Activity (Google Slides): Students will be required to use the information that they have gathered during the Central Idea lesson to create an objective summary of the non-fiction article. An informational text and teacher models have been provided to help guide students during this activity.
4. Answer Keys and Teacher Models (Google Slides): I have included answer keys or teacher models for the majority of this lesson. These models include text annotations, how I turned each subheading into a question, and then read to answer my self-generated question.
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