Lesson Plan Hey! What’s the Big Idea?
Need extra help for EL students? Try the Discovering Nonfiction Details pre-lesson.
Learning Objectives Students will be able to identify the main idea of a nonfiction text.
Introduction (3 minutes)
Tell students that today we will be looking at different nonfiction texts and identifying the main idea of each text.
Explain that the main idea is what the text is mostly about.
Explain that in order to determine the main idea of a text you have to look for clues throughout the reading process.
Beginning
Show students examples of simple nonfiction texts so they familiarize themselves with the genre.
Intermediate
Define "nonfiction" and "clues" in student-friendly terms in English or in students' home language if applicable.