Did you hear that? It's the main idea! Teach your class listening and note-taking strategies for determining the main idea by following the steps provided in this plan.

Concepts

main ideas, supporting details, listening comprehension, note-taking skills, active listening

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Use the note page for each text, and for any text that follows; learners can move from listening to reading and still use the same page
• Provide some sentence frames to support pupils as they take notes

Classroom Considerations

• While the sentence strips are provided, they are printed very close to one another on the page, which will make them difficult to cut; consider typing up a new version or simply highlighting one line on each page
• This plan was designed with English language learners in mind, but is not limited to use with that population
• The lyrics to "Follow the Drinking Gourd" are not included, but can be easily found with an Internet search

Pros

• Comes with sentence strips for students to read, a note-taking form, handouts, and articles to analyze
• Allows plenty of time for learners to practice and perfect their strategies for determining the main idea of a text

Cons

• Some steps in the plan are vague and will need extra attention before teaching; for example, one step says to preteach key vocabulary in the provided text, but the vocabulary is not included

Common Core

RI.5.2 RI.6.2 RI.7.2 RI.8.2