Determining Importance

Use Langston Hughes's poem, "Words Like Freedom," to explore the concepts of freedom and liberty. Learners read the poem, determine the theme, and use the provided graphic organizer to examine the connotative and denotative meanings of...

Post these seven highly effective strategies used by good readers. The three-page resource details metacognition, schema, inferring, questioning, determining importance, visualizing, and synthesizing.

After reading any short informational or fictional text, ask your class to analyze the important events. They note down three important events on a short timeline, describing the events with either words or drawings. After this, pupils...

Determine the author's point of view in a text. Young readers read Dr. Seuss' The Sneeches and identify the author's purpose in the story. They identify persuasive techniques in writing, asking and answering questions to better...

As your scholars begin their career study, it's important they understand their personal intrinsic values. What makes them feel rewarded? There are discussion prompts here to get learners thinking about specific careers, and they also...

Concentrate on the most important idea in an informational text by looking at the supporting details and composing a one-sentence statement about the central idea. In the video, the narrator makes a timeline of events in "The Little...

Find out how accomplished your class is at identifying quotes with this online interactive quiz. This quiz provides ten quotes from To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Class members identify the speaker by choosing one of four given...

Eighth through eleventh graders practice six reading comprehension strategies: connecting, visualizing, questioning, inferring, determining importance in text, and synthesizing. Each strategy is practiced using a different picture book...

Students discuss the main idea of a story.  In this writing process lesson, students use a video about parakeets as a tool to find the main idea of a story.  After viewing the video, they engage in a discussion about determining which...

Through a series of reading in their Holt Textbook, seventh graders consider author's perspective and personal point of view. They work in pairs or groups of three to take notes and discuss various perspectives of an event. They create...