Lesson 3: Determining Importance

Lesson 3: Determining Importance

By Teacher Lhora

Pick 3!

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Pick only three things and justify your answer.

Group Activity:

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Instructions: In your group discuss what to bring in the four possible scenarios. Pick only three things and justify your answer.

Preparation: 3 minutes

Presentation: 3 minutes ​

1. going bowling: bowling ball, pizza, bowling shoes, bowling pins, soda, music

2. going camping: tent, sleeping bag, frisbee, firewood, s’mores, matches

3. things to bring to school: bookbag, homework, lunch, pencils, paper, iPad

4. making an ice cream sundae: ice cream, bowl, sprinkles, ice cream scoop, hot fudge, cherry

STRAINING NOODLES

Imagine

When you pour the hot water and spaghetti into the strainer, the water slips through the holes, leaving only the noodles behind. 

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In the same way, when we read, our brain is like that strainer.  We keep only the important things and let everything else strain out. 

in. (2019, October 29). THE CLASSROOM NOOK. THE CLASSROOM NOOK. https://www.classroomnook.com/blog/determining-importance

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Determining the Importance.

Open Ended

What are significant details?

Significant details

Think about these things..

Significant Details explain, develop and support the main idea.

Important details​

Open Ended

What are interesting details?

Interesting details

Think about these things..

Interesting Details support the significant details. ​

Watch the video

Think about these things..

​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-1eahJxy6k

• needed for the topic

• a major fact

• vital to the text

• important to the subject

• something that makes the subject what it is

• something neat to read about

• a fun fact

• something you find cool or interesting

• not always important to the article

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Important VS Interesting

Think about these things..

• Main facts

• details

• illustrations

• graphs

• bold words

Reading Non-Fiction

• Character/s

• Setting​

• Events​

• Conflicts​

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Important VS Interesting

Think about these things..

​Reading Fiction

How are you going to identify significant details?

1. Read the text and identify the main idea.

2. Find the details that support the main idea.

Ask yourself: 

Do I need this detail to understand the main idea? 

If the answer is yes, it is a significant detail.

Does this detail give me more information about a significant detail? 

If the answer is yes, then it is an interesting detail. 

Open Ended

Why identify significant details?

Why identify significant details?

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Being able to recognize the significant details helps us find and understand the main idea of the text.

Interesting details can distract from the main idea. 

Sorting significant details from interesting details helps us to stay focused on the main idea.

Seatwork

Instructions: Carefully read the material and write the main idea of the text. Find and write/type one significant detail and one interesting detail for each section of your graphic organizer.

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Pick 1 from the 3 platforms to use for your answer. ​

Subject | Subject

CANVA/GOOGLESLIDES/ENGLISH NOTEBOOK