Identifying the Main Idea

What is an informational book?

• Literature created from the imagination with fake character and setting(s).

• A book that explains known facts about a specific topic. You learn about the specific topic as you read.

• A book that puts feelings of fear, terror, and anxiousness in the reader as they read.

• A book in which you must put the clues together to figure out who committed the crime.

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.2

CCSS.RI.2.6

What is a main idea?

• The most important or central thought of a paragraph or larger section of text, which tells the reader what the text is about.

• The first sentence of each paragraph.

• The facts provided in the text that help us learn about an object or topic.

• A restatement of the meaning of a text or passage using other words or our own words.

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.2

CCSS.RI.2.6

What does it mean to paraphrase?

• To copy the authors words, word for word, and claim it as your restatement

• To divide something into smaller pieces

• To write a big, long paper on a book

• To create a restatement of the meaning of a text or passage using your own words or words other than the author's

True or False? To chunk text/writing means to break it down into smaller sections/chunks.

• True (correct)

• Fals (wrong)

True or False? Chunking the text and paraphrasing the chunked text, then putting it together helps us identify the main idea of the whole text/book.

• True (correct)

• False (wrong)

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.2

CCSS.RI.2.6

True or False? Reading to identify the main idea is NOT reading with purpose?

• True (correct)

• False (wrong)

Tags

CCSS.RI.2.2

CCSS.RI.2.6

Do we read just to read and get the book over with? Or do we read with purpose to understand what the book is telling and/or teaching us?

• Read just to read

• Read with purpose to understand and learn about what the book is teaching me/us

Tags

CCSS.RF.2.4A

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RI.2.6

CCSS.RL.2.1

How confident are you in your abilities to use this strategy (Paraphrasing Chunks, Then Put It Together) on your own with your independent reading book or passage?

• Very confident, I can do this!

• Somewhat confident, I might need a little help

• Not very confident, I am confused and will need help

• Not confident at all, I don't know where to start or what to do