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Main Idea & Details: Icebergs

Get ready to read and write about icebergs! In this exercise, your EL students will use a graphic organizer and paragraph frame to identify the main idea and supporting details in a short nonfiction text.

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Grade

Fourth Grade Fifth Grade

Subject

Reading & writing

Reading Non-Fiction
- Non-Fiction Comprehension
  - Identifying the Main Topic in Non-Fiction Texts
  - Details in Non-Fiction Texts

Standards

RI.5.2, RI.4.2

Standards

English Language Arts and Reading

Grade 3
- 3.6.G
- 3.9.D.i
Grade 4
- 4.6.G
- 4.9.D.i
Grade 5
- 5.6.G
- 5.9.D.i

Standards

English

Grade Three
- R.3.6.g
Grade Four
- R.4.6.c
Grade Five
- R.5.6.c

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Standards

English Language Arts

Grade 3
- 2.1.B.3
- 2.2.B.2
- 3.1.A.2
Grade 4
- 2.2.B.2
- 4.1.A.1

Standards

English

Key Stage 2 Year 5
- 2.2.A.1
Key Stage 2 Year 6
- 2.2.A.1
Key Stage 2 Year 4
- 2.2.A.1

Standards

Literacy and English

Third
- R.4.A.a
- R.4.2

Standards

Literacy and English

Third
- LIT-3.2.4.a.1

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Standards

English

Year 3
- ACELY1680.e
Year 4
- ACELY1692.g

Standards

English

Level 3
- RV.VCELY257.5
Level 4
- RV.VCELY288.7

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Guided Lesson: Informational Text 1

Guided Lessons are a sequence of interactive digital games, worksheets, and other activities that guide learners through different concepts and skills. They keep track of your progress and help you study smarter, step by step.

Guided Lessons are digital games and exercises that keep track of your progress and help you study smarter, step by step.

Now that reading skills are more developed, second graders will move on to comprehension of informational text. This guided lesson supports this through an exploration of the main idea of a text, as well as the other text features, such as: captions, phtoographs, maps headings, subheadings, glossary, index, icons and graphs. Kids will look at two texts that cover the same topic, but in different ways.

Now that reading skills are more developed, second graders will move on to comprehension of informational text.

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