Central Message

1. In order to find the central message of a text, I first must...

• Read the entire text

• Summarize text

• Skim and Scan Text

• Use text features

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CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

2.What is a Central Message

• The main Idea

• The lesson the author is trying to teach us

• The problem in the story

• The narrator speaking

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CCSS.RL.3.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

What does it mean to retell a story?

• To tell about a character

• to tell about the characters and setting

• to ask question about the text

• to tell about the characters, setting, and events

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CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.SL.3.4

CCSS.W.3.3A

What is the central message of the story?

• Never give up

• Be kind to others

• You can learn to swim

• Stay out of the ocean

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CCSS.RL.3.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

How did the character learn this this lesson?

• He gave up

• His mother taught him

• Ben learns this moral because he got back on his board and tried again. He succeeded.

• Stay out of the ocean.

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CCSS.RL.1.3

CCSS.RL.2.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.K.3