Outlining Lesson Plans

Students explore the concept of the outlining process. In this outlining lesson, students outline various pieces of expository writing.  Students also discover how to ensure that the outline touches on the main idea and the most important details.   

In this lesson students explore outlining and evaluating expository writing. In this expository writing lesson, students discuss main ideas and are shown examples. In this lesson students go through a sample outline and discuss things that fit and things that don't. In this lesson students then create their own outline of a magazine article and compare their work to their peers.

Students goal is to achieve summarization. They read familiar words and decode words at their reading level. They summarize articles through the use of an outline in order ot improve reading comprehension. Students complete a basic outline.

4th graders investigate how outlining can aid in comprehending text. In this reading comprehension lesson, 4th graders outline an article they read in groups of two. 4th graders take turns reading the article, identifying the main idea, color coding information, and retelling the information they learned.

8th graders examine blends and consonant digraphs and observe and demonstrate how to mark up text and create a keyword outline. They read a list of words and circle the blends and underline the digraphs and write sentences using words with consonant blends and digraphs. 8th graders then observe the teacher model how to mark up the text and create a keyword outline on a biography about Socrates.

9th graders examine blends and consonant digraphs, and how to write a summary keyword outline. They develop a class list of words with both blends and consonant digraphs, and write sentences using words from the list. 9th graders then read a paragraph and observe how to create a keyword outline.

This lesson has 6th graders participate in a phonics expectancies activity, and read a passage of text for information. They read and discuss the rules of base words ending in -y expectancy and write examples of words to match each rule in poster form. This lesson has 6th graders then read an Aesop's Fable and write a keyword outline for a passage, and write an opinion about the fable using their outline.

5th graders create note outlines utilizing past research notes.  In this college prep lesson, 5th graders review social studies facts they learned in their class throughout the year and create an efficient outline to organize their information.  5th graders view a social studies video with their classmates.

In this lesson students develop note-taking skills. In this outlining lesson, students use sentence strips to practice identifying a main idea and sub-headings.

5th graders breainsotrm and then use Inspiration software to create a web of ideas on a personal subject of their own selection. Then they click the outline button to change the web to outlne form. They use the outline to complete their essay.