Give your students a chance to share some interesting anecdotes with this simple lesson. By brainstorming ideas about past experiences, young writers will learn to develop their own personal narratives.

Use this lesson to help your ELs understand main idea and supporting details. They'll analyze non-fiction word, sentence, and paragraph structures. It can be a stand-alone lesson or a support lesson to the In Search of Main Ideas lesson.

Captions and illustrations come together and leap forth from your class as they relate to nonfiction texts.

Your students will be introduced to the concept of a main idea in this fun lesson using props to support their thinking.