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Lesson Plan
Main Idea and Details in Fiction
In this EL support lesson, your students will use introductory phrases to write about the main idea and details in a fictional story.
This lesson can be used as a pre-lesson for the Three Times a Charm! Close Reading with Annotations lesson plan.
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This lesson can be used as a pre-lesson for the Three Times a Charm! Close Reading with Annotations lesson plan.
Objectives
Academic
Students will be able to use the close reading strategy to understand a text more deeply.
Language
Students will be able to write about the main idea and details in a fictional text with introductory phrases using sentence frames and a graphic organizer.
Introduction
(2 minutes)
- Tell students that today they will practice finding the main idea of a story.
- Using a story that students are familiar with, provide an example (e.g., "The Tortoise and the Hare" is mostly about a race between the two main characters.).
- Explain that they will use a graphic organizer and sentence frames to help them write about the main idea and details.