2. Please complete the next day of your “Iditarod Bell Ringer Pack.”

3. The MAIN IDEA of a passage is… …the message the author is trying to tell its readers. …supported by sentences or facts. These are called supporting sentences.

4. The MAIN IDEA must be supported by sentences or facts from the passage. Here is a graphic organizer for finding the MAIN IDEA. Main Idea Supporting Idea

6. Let’s practice finding the main idea in the chapter we read in The Revealers. In your notebooks, please copy this chart down. (It should take up your entire page.)

7. What do you think the main idea of this chapter was? Supporting sentence?

8. 1. Please tell me what the MAIN IDEA of a passage is. 2. What do you use to defend the MAIN IDEA of a passage?

10. Please complete the next day of your “Iditarod Bell Ringer Pack.”

11. What is the MAIN IDEA? The main message the author is trying to communicate to its readers.

12. How can we be sure if something is the MAIN IDEA? It will have supporting sentences that confirm it is the main idea.

13. Let’s Practice… Please create a MAIN IDEA graphic organizer.

14. Choose the correct MAIN IDEA and find sentences to support our hypothesis.

15. With your group, please complete the Study Guide questions for what we read today in The Revealers.

17. Please complete the next day of your “Iditarod Bell Ringer Pack.”

18. QUICK REVIEW With your partner, please write down the answers to the following 2 questions: 1. Please tell me what the MAIN IDEA of a passage is. 2. What do you use to defend the MAIN IDEA of a passage?

19. What’s the MAIN IDEA? 1. Please draw a large MAIN IDEA graphic organizer in your notebook. 2. Read the following passage and fill in the MAIN IDEA and give 4 sentences to defend your main idea. 3. Conference with your partner to see if you have similar answers.

20. It is estimated that over twenty million pounds of candy corn are sold in the US each year. Brach’s, the top manufacturer, sells enough candy corn to circle the earth 4.25 times if each piece were laid end to end. That’s a lot of candy corn, but that’s nothing compared to Tootsie Roll production. Over 64 million Tootsie Rolls are produced every day! But even Tootsie Rolls have got nothing on the candy industry’s staple product, chocolate. Confectioners manufacture over twenty billion pounds of chocolate in the United States each year. Now that’s a mouthful!

22. Screech! When a driver pushes on the brake pedal, it initiates a process that causes the vehicle to stop in motion. You literally trust automotive braking systems with your life every time you get into a vehicle or cross at a busy intersection, but how does this process work? It begins when the pedal is pushed. At this moment brake fluid is released into the area where the braking mechanisms are. As the fluid collects, this creates a leverage, which causes a friction to be applied. If the braking system is functioning properly, this friction will create a force that will cause the wheels to stop and allow you to reach your destination safely.

24. With your group, please complete the Study Guide questions for what we read today in The Revealers.

25. TO DO 1. Finish your “Iditarod Bell Ringer Packet.” 2. Grab your SSR book and begin reading silently.

26. Please complete your “Iditarod Bell Ringer Pack” as we wait to go to Library.

27. EXIT TICKET Please write the main idea and give me three supporting details that support your main idea. There are many types of deadly venom in the animal kingdom, but perhaps no stranger animal than the platypus. The platypus is one of few venomous mammals. Males carry a venom cocktail in their ankle that paralyzes its victims with excruciating pain. Stranger still, the platypus is the only mammal that uses electroreception. What this means is that the platypus uses its bill to sense the electricity produced by the movements of its prey. The platypus neither sees, hears, nor smells its prey while hunting but, rather, chases it through electroreception. Perhaps most odd, the platypus is the only mammal that lays eggs rather than giving birth to live young. The platypus is an odd creature indeed.