A3000: "Honoring Dr. King Through Service"

​"Honoring Dr. King Through Service" Achieve 3000
Learning Targets (I can…)

• I can identify the main idea of an informational article.

• I can explain how details support the author’s message (purpose).

ELA.6.AOR.2.2 ELA.6.AOR.2.2

Instead of giving you steps, let's check your knowledge:
Step 1: Where can I look in the article to find some clues about the main idea?
Step 2: What are some important words in the title?
Step 3: What should I do when I read the question?

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• I can identify the main idea of an informational article.

Multiple Choice

The article talks mainly about __________.

• how people assist their communities by supplying meals to senior citizens

• the acts of service performed by volunteers at shelters and public parks

• the speech Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered at the Lincoln Memorial

• how people honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. through acts of service

Step 1: Ask yourself: WHY did the author include this passage?

Step 2: Are there examples? Are they explaining something? Trying to convince or persuade?

Step 3: Think about the questions in Step 2. Read the answer choices and choose the one that best matches the author's reason for writing the paragraph.

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​I can explain how details support the author’s message (purpose).

Multiple Choice

In past years, students in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, packed duffel bags for children entering foster care. In Raleigh, North Carolina, kids helped assemble meal kits. Children in Olympia, Washington, wrote letters of kindness to neighbors. And, in Kansas City, Missouri, students painted school-approved messages of encouragement on school walls.

The author's purpose for writing this passage was to __________.

• suggest that individual acts of kindness are more meaningful than organized acts

• stress the importance of learning how to write and format a letter correctly

• explain that writing on school walls is only allowed with school approval

• describe some of the ways people are honoring Dr. King through service