Main Idea (Canada)

What is main idea?

• The lesson or central message

• The topic of a text

• Making inferences

• What the text is mostly about

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.2.2

What are supporting details?

• opinions about the general topic and main idea

• The evidence that supports the main idea

• Finding unfamiliar vocabulary

• Using what I already know about the topic

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CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

Details are....?

Choose all that apply

• Inferences

• Explicitly in the text

• Gives more information about the main idea

• Proves and supports the main idea

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CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RI.2.1

Main Idea is...?

• A complete sentence

• One word

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CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

I can determine the main idea of a text and recognize how key details support the main idea.

• Agree (yes)

• Disagree (no)

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CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

Nunavut, which means “Our Land” in the language of the Inuit people, is a huge territory in Canada’s north. The arctic region stretches from the North Pole to Arviat in the south, and from Kugluktuk in the west to Panjnirtung in the east. The distances are huge, and many villages are very isolated. The Northwest Territories reach from Nunavut in the east to the Yukon in the west.

• All of Canada is very isolated.

• Nunavut is a huge territory in Canada's arctic region.

• Canada

• Canada is very cold

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CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.4.9

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RI.6.2

Larger towns like Iqaluit, Tuktoyaktuk, and Yellowknife have their own public-library buildings, but many communities are just too small. Some communities, like Fort Liard, have a virtual library, which offers Internet access. But even if the community does not have any kind of library building, the Northwest Territories public library system offers books to everyone in the far north through their Borrower-by-Mail program.

• Fort Liard has a virtual library that gives them internet access.

• Places in the far north use a Borrower-by-Mail program.

• The three largest towns in Canada are: Iqaluit, Tuktoyaktuk, and Yellowknife.

• Many communities are too small for their own public-library buildings.

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CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RI.2.2

Tyson Anakvik, Colin Igutaaq, James Naikak, and Cameron Ovilok are friends in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. They request library books by e-mail or by phone. A mobile library doesn’t bring the books to their village; the books are sent through the mail. The Borrower-by-Mail program will send children any books they’d like to read. If the library doesn’t have a book in its system, librarians will borrow the book from another library in Canada and mail it. They even include a stamped, addressed envelope, so the children won’t have to pay to return the book.

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CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RI.2.2

The boys take their young friend Liza for a ride on their sled as they walk to the post office to pick up their books. The boys look forward to reading that night. On winter days, the sun does not come above the horizon, and when the thermometer reads minus 50 degrees, the children like to curl up with a good book by the wood stove. While the northern wind howls across the tundra, they read fantasy and action novels. Liza is excited about finding good picture books in the package

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CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

They can keep their books for up to six weeks. After that, they’ll pack them up and walk to the local post office to mail the books back to the library. Then they’ll check the mail every day . . . until another big brown package arrives with new books to devour in their remote corner of Canada’s Arctic.

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CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.4.9

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RI.6.2