What's the difference between the main idea of a text and the topic? Take kids through the process of literary analysis with a presentation about finding the main idea and supporting details. Additionally, it guides learners through examples and techniques for finding the important details.

Concepts

main ideas, reading comprehension, literary analysis, supporting details, topic sentences

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Use in a unit about finding the main ideas in informational text or literature, whichever is more relevant to your curriculum
• Have kids view the presentation on their own, prepared to discuss what they learned in class the next day, to create a flipped classroom assignment

Classroom Considerations

• There is a lot of text on each slide

Pros

• Comes with a slide full of additional resources and materials to use
• Provides a summary of the presentation at the end
• Includes examples from films and books that kids will recognize

Cons

• None

Common Core

RL.7.1 RL.7.2 RL.8.1 RL.8.2 RL.9-10.1 RL.9-10.2