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Prezi: Main Idea and Supporting Details
Slideshow investigates how to find the main idea and key details of a story.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Writing Process: Finding Evidence
This activity focuses on finding evidence to support your thesis, how to incorporate your findings into your own work, and how to effectively quote, paraphrase, and summarize your information. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.9, W.11-12.1b...
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Smekens Educational Solutions: Expose K 2 Readers to Annotation Strategies
This article discusses how to begin teaching students in K-2 to record their ideas about text using highlighters, colored pens, large graphic organizers, and sticky notes. Students can retell a story with a storyboard, use a web to find...
Education.com
Education.com: Asking Questions and Finding Answers
[Free Registration/Login Required] Pretending to be someone else is so much fun! In this hilarious lesson, young scholars will get to take on the persona of a book character as they practice their question and answer skills. At the...
Thinkport Education
Thinkport: Multiple Sources: Climate Change and Mummies
In this science-themed literacy lesson, students learn how to identify the central idea and key details in an article about ancient mummies.
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Story Writing Frames [Pdf]
Teachers will learn how to use story writing frames with their students. Teachers will learn how to implement story frames; measure progress with story frames; and find research to support using story frames. A reproducible story frame...