1. Foundations of Language Arts Week 13 Agenda
Monday: Reading Comprehension Main Idea, Finding Facts, & Making Inferences Tuesday: Vocabulary Building Wednesday: Reading Quiz (#4) Thursday: Review on: Main Idea, Inferences, Vocab Building & Comma & Semicolon Friday: Conferences

2. NEW Seating Chart – Language Arts 7th Period
Front/Teacher’s Desk
Front/Door
Ramadan & Yonis
Aisha & Abdullahi Abdullahi
Abdirisaq & Hafsa
Salma S. & Jabir
Volunteer #1 (walking around)
Muna & Abdulqadir
Zakariye & Fatma
Kamal
Abdikarim & Asha
Abdijabar & Idil
Abdikalik & Habso
Abdullahi Farah & Saynab
Salma Y & Ayanle
Volunteer #2 (walking around)

3. Monday: Announcement: Movie night
Monday: Announcement: Movie night!!! Topic, Main Idea, and Supporting Details & Making Inferences

4. Topic and Main Idea
Every story or paragraph has an umbrella topic. Every story or paragraph has a main idea. The main idea tells you what the story is about.

5. Supporting Details
The supporting details are the things that describe the main idea. These supporting details make the main idea stronger.

6. Topic

7. Topic The topic is the general subject of a selection.
The topic can often lead you to the author’s main point about a selection.

8. Topic
general idea
Main Idea = Author’s main point

9. Topic general idea Main Idea = Author’s main point
The author’s main point is supported by details such as reasons and examples that back up the main idea. These are called supporting details.

10. Topic
general idea
Main Idea = Author’s main point D E T A I L

11. Topic: Pets
Main Idea
Caring for your pet W A T E R F O D S H G M I N

12. TOPIC Main Idea Supporting details Supporting details

13. Care of your hunting dog Field trials for your hunting dog
Field Training
Care of your hunting dog
Best Breeds
Field trials for your hunting dog
Main Idea:
Hunting Dogs
TOPIC
Pets

14. Topic
Main Idea
Supporting Detail

15. Topic Main Idea Dogs Training Your Puppy *House breaking *Sit and Stay
*Walking on a leash
*Jumping up on people

16. Read the Passage and Choose the Main Idea
Niagara Falls is one of the most beautiful sights in North America. It is on the Niagara River halfway between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie. Niagara Falls is located on the American and Canadian border. The American Falls is 167 feet high. On the Canadian side, the Horseshoe Falls is 161 feet high.

17. Find the Main Idea of this Passage
The Erie Canal changed the way people moved goods in the 1800’s. The 363 mile canal connected Albany, New York to Lake Erie in Buffalo for the first time. When the Canal opened in 1825, building supplies and goods could be transported quickly and cheaply across New York State. Canal boats pulled by mules carried people and supplies across New York.

18. Find the Main Idea of this Passage
The Erie Canal changed the way people moved goods in the 1800’s. The 363 mile canal connected Albany, New York to Lake Erie in Buffalo for the first time. When the Canal opened in 1825, building supplies and goods could be transported quickly and cheaply across New York State. Canal boats pulled by mules carried people and supplies across New York.

19. What are the supporting details of this Passage?
The Erie Canal changed the way people moved goods in the 1800’s. The 363 mile canal connected Albany, New York to Lake Erie in Buffalo for the first time. When the Canal opened in 1825, building supplies and goods could be transported quickly and cheaply across New York State. Canal boats pulled by mules carried people and supplies across New York.

20. Lesson 1: Death of a dream
Re-read Lesson 1 from last week and section A on main idea. More difficult to find the main idea of an article than a passage, but same concept…
Main Idea = M Too Broad= B Too Narrow=N
The crash of Sabena Flight 548 was a great tragedy for the sport of figure skating.
Skater Laurie Owen, who was killed in the plane crash, had won the North American singles title just two days earlier.
In Feb. 1961, Sabena Flight 548 crashed killing everyone on board, including 18 members of the U.S. figure skating team.
Move on to making inferences…

21. What is an inference anyway?

22. To inference is to take a critical look at what you are reading and make an assumption based on your own experiences.

23. When do we use inferencing?

24. While we are reading, we are picturing the story and asking ourselves questions about the story.

25. We find clues in the text and can make judgments, to answer these questions, based on what we know from our experiences.

26. Take a look at this cartoon:

28. First let’s consider Lucy.
What do we see?
By reading the picture, we can see how the author drew her.

29. What do we know?
We know that when people look like that, they are usually angry.

30. We can infer that Lucy is Angry.

31. We read that Lucy sighs and then says “Youth never listens.”
What do we read?
We read that Lucy sighs and then says “Youth never listens.”

32. What do we know?
We know that Lucy is a “youth”. We also know that when someone says that someone else “never listens,” It’s an insult.

33. Because Lucy wouldn’t want to insult herself, we can infer that Lucy thinks she is more Mature than Linus and Snoopy.

34. What can you infer from this picture?

35. Right… We can infer that these girls are friends because they are smiling and walking together.

36. Yes… We can also infer that they are shopping because they are in a mall and are carrying bags.

37. What can we infer from this passage
What can we infer from this passage? She stumbled down the road, not sure what made her car veer like that. The water was running down her face and dripping off her hair. She suddenly saw the lights of another car. She was sure they would be able to help her.

38. Can you infer what just happened to the woman
Can you infer what just happened to the woman? Can you infer the setting?

39. Good readers visualize, question, and make judgments about what they read Don’t fly blind, be a good reader!

40. Lesson 1: Death of a Dream
Go through section C (C=Correct Inference; F=Faulty Inference)
Even before the plane made its first approach, Captain Lambrechts knew something was wrong with the 707 jet.
Weather conditions had nothing to do with the crash of the Sabena flight.
Seconds before the impact, passengers on board had no ideas that their plane was about to crash.
Officials in the Brussels control tower acted quickly in the emergency.
More people would have been killed if the plane had not missed hitting a row of houses.

41. Tuesday: Making Inferences & Vocabulary Building

42. Lesson 3: Tragedy at the Sunshine Silver Mine
Discuss section C and your inferences/labeling (C1, C2, etc.).
Move on to vocabulary building… Section D

43. Wednesday Reading Test #4

44. Thursday Review on: Main Idea, Inferences, Vocab Building, Comma & Semicolon