UNIT X 168 | UNIT 5 Instructional Routine: Before You Read p. Txxv Reading Strategy: Organize Details • Identify main idea Explain that the main idea of a text is what it is mostly about. Quickly draw a series of pictures on the board: a soccer ball, a soccer goal, a soccer field, and two stick figures running. Ask: What are the pictures about? What is the main idea? Elicit the answer: soccer, and write it on the board in the middle of the pictures. • Identify details Point to the pictures of the soccer ball, the goal, and the players and say: These are details. What are the details about the main idea soccer? Elicit: You need a soccer ball and a goal to play soccer. Boys and girls play. • Organize details Explain the reading strategy. Say: As you read, think about the information you learn. Identify the information as the main idea or details. A Idea Map • Use a graphic and semantic organizer Say: Look at the idea map. This is a way to organize the main idea and details. Draw circles around the pictures on the board and connect them to the main idea “soccer” to form an idea map. • Confirm comprehension Ask children to read the idea map on page 168. Ask: What is the main idea? What is a detail? How are the details organized? Children should recognize that the details are organized by each of the four seasons. B • Identify information from graphics Have children copy the main idea and two details on paper. Tell them to choose which details to write. Use this activity as an assessment of how well they have understood the lesson. • Confirm comprehension Ask children to draw pictures to illustrate the idea map. ANSWERS Main idea: There are four seasons. Details: Sample answers: In summer, it is hot and sunny. In winter, it is cold and sometimes it snows. Describe pictures Have children work in pairs and take turns presenting their drawings to each other. Monitor to make sure children point out the details they have chosen to illustrate. EXPLORE AND LEARN PRACTICE COMMUNICATE DIFFERENTIATED INSTRUCTION Scaffold Ask children to create an idea map with pictures. Have them write the name of a season in the middle as the main idea and draw pictures of the season as details. Amplify Ask children to use the idea map to complete a paragraph. Provide a paragraph template, such as: Main idea: __________________ Detail: Detail: Detail: Detail: UNIT 5 / BEFORE YOU READ Organize Details Reading Strategy When you read, think about the main idea. Details tell more about the main idea. A Read the idea map. B Write the main idea. Write two details. It is warm. It is rainy. spring It is cold. Sometimes it snows. winter It is cool. It is windy. Plants change colors. fall It is hot. It is sunny. summer There are four seasons. Idea Map This is the main idea. These are details. BEFORE YOURead UNIT 5 168 CON22_1_SE_U05_168-169_BR.indd 168 30/10/2020 11:53
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