Week 2: Determining Central Message

What does is mean to DETERMINE?

• Figure out

• Central Message

• Character

• Key Details

What is a CENTRAL MESSAGE?

• Lesson about Life

• What the Character Learns

• Theme

• Moral

U: What do you see in the illustration?

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N: Which character to do you think will learn something?

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N: What do you think the CENTRAL MESSAGE could be?

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What do you use to help you determine the Central Message?

• Main Idea

• Setting

• Key Details

• The Passage

The details that are Key Details are:

• What the character feels

• What the character says

• The problem the characters faces

• What the Character learns

R: Which character learned something in the story?

• The Horse

• The girl

• The farmer

• Apples

R: How did the girl feel when she picked up the apples?

• Full

• Hungry

• In a Hurry

• Very Sleepy

R: What did the girl ask the farmer?

• How long it will take to get back home

• Who took the cookies from the cookie jar

• Why her apples were bruised

• How can it take long if I go fast?