MD+RIT+191-200


 * Skill: Determine Main Idea and Identify Details**


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 * RIT Range: 191-200**

• Analyzes text to identify main idea or theme of a literary text • Analyzes literary text to identify a title representing the main idea • Draws conclusions in literary text based upon supporting details • Interprets informational text to identify a title representing the main idea • Interprets the main idea of informational texts based on supporting details
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 * Skill: Determine Main Idea and Identify Details**


 * Title of Lesson: Choose a Title**


 * RIT Range: 191-200**

Interprets informational text to identify a title representing the main idea
 * Objective:**


 * ISBE Standard:**

Use a passage from informational text, such as the social studies or science textbook, to introduce this skill. Use the SRA Specific Skill Series "Getting the Main Idea" Book C (available in the xxx) for assessment.
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//Teacher:// A picture or a story is about something. It has a subject.The main idea tells about the subject. When you read the title of a passage, it will tell you what the passage is about, or the main idea. I am going to read a passage to you and I would like you to give me a possible title for the passage.
 * Introduction:**

Read a paragraph from the textbook and model for students how you would determine a good title for this passage.
 * Lesson Activity:**

Continue this exercise by reading at least two more paragraphs and asking for titles. Discuss why some titles tell the main idea and work for the passage and why some might not tell the main idea and be appropriate.

//Teacher//: As you can see by reading these passages and choosing titles, the title gives the reader the big picture about the passage -- the main idea. Now I will pass out a sheet with a few short passages. You will read these passages and choose the title that best fits with each passage.
 * Closure:**

Use the SRA Specific Skill Series "Getting the Main Idea" Book C (available in the xxx) for assessment. Page 6, for example, has 5 short informational passages with questions. You can print out the attached Work document, which includes a four-question assessment based on one page of the SRA.
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