Lesson Plan
Main Idea and Supporting Details
Help your ELs learn how to identify the main idea and supporting details in a nonfiction text by using nouns and pronouns as guide words. It can be a stand-alone lesson or used as support to the lesson Explorer Letters.
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Objectives
Academic
Students will be able to explain the most important accomplishments of an explorer.
Language
Students will be able to identify the topic of a sentence or text using nouns and pronouns as guide words and using a graphic organizer.
Introduction
(1 minutes)- Tell students that today they will be learning about main ideas and supporting details.
- Write a student-friendly language objective on the board and do a choral read-aloud.