Visual/Main Ideas
Title: Literature Mobiles
Idea:
Create a mobile showing the setting, main characters, or sequence of events in a favorite story. BE CREATIVE!
Materials:
 | assorted construction paper, |
| coat hangers or empty cardboard rolls, |
| index cards, |
| crayons/markers, |
| yarn or string, |
| scissors, |
| glue |
| Contributor: Georgianna Jensen |
| Mail: jenseng@pluto.dsu.edu |
Title: Visually Organize Concepts for Active Reading
Implement the use of graphic organizers into your students' reading. Graphic organizers can help students to visually organize what they are reading and take out the main ideas. Graphic organizers are especially useful after a reading, as a reviewing tool.
Resource:
http://www.glencoe.com/sec/teachingtoday/weeklytips.phtml/6 | Contributor: Marissa Lyle |
| Mail: lylem@pluto.dsu.edu |
Title: Picture Walk
Idea: When introducing a book to the children ask them to predict what they see on the cover and what they think the story will be about. Then open the book and flip through the pages and have the children predict what is happening on each of the pages from what they view on the pages. Talk about the children's predictions and then begin to read the book together.
Resource:
| Contributor: Kristin VanderPoel |
| Email: kristinelaine21@hotmail.com |
Title: Finding Main Ideas
Idea: Previewing the paper or story is also useful because it helps you find the main ideas in your reading before you start to read. Look at the heading or the title of the paper or story. Previewing the heading and sub-heading often tell at a glance what the main ideas are. I isn't always easy, but previewing will certainly provide clues to main ideas so that you know them when you see them.
If you are having troubles deciding what the main ideas is in the piece, look at the first paragraph and decide which sentence is the most important statement in that paragraph or in a group of paragraphs. Details explain a main idea. Details may be in the form of facts, explanations or descriptions.
There is more than one important idea in any reading material longer than a paragraph or two. Some are packed full of ideas. But you still can point to one thing, the most important thing, that is the main subject of the whole article. Organize the ideas in your mind if your capable of doing so. Keep the main subject on the reading in mind when reading through the passage. Write it down if you have to. You would have found this main idea when you previewed the passage.
Resource:
http://www.teachercreated.com/lessons/010622il.shtml | Contributor: Abbey Franken |
| Email: afranken33@hotmail.com |
Title: Newspaper Breakdown
Idea: While students search a newspaper, have them create a
graphic organizer. A great example would be a concept map, which would be very
helpful for students to label the main idea of the whole article. Each concept
branched off the central topic would be the main idea of each paragraph,
followed by main ideas in each paragraph. This visual will help students
organize and comprehend the important aspects of a newspaper.
Resource:
http://www.teachercreated.com/lessons/010622il.shtml
| Contributor: Nicole Hoiten |
| Email: hoitenn@pluto.dsu.edu |
Title: Give a Hand
Idea: Have students trace their hands and use it to write a short paragraph about their hands. The main idea/topic sentence can go in the palm. The fingers can contain the supporting details. Make sure students write sentences that support their main idea. Display the hands around the classroom so students can see and study the difference between a main idea and supporting details.
Resource: http://www.brainpopjr.com/readingandwriting/comprehension/mainidea/grownups.weml
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Contributor: Bradi Jorgensen |
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Email: bejorgensen@pluto.dsu.edu |