1. Welcome to Reading Class! October 18, 2011 Objective: Students will identify and apply 5 specific strategies to distinguish the main idea and summarize text.

2. Vocab. Click to add text

3. What does it mean to find the main idea? 1.Identify all the details in a text 2.Identify the major topic of a text 3.Visualize the text 4.Rewrite the topic sentence

4. Which reading strategy goes hand-in- hand with main idea? 1.Visualizing/Imaging 2.Connecting 3.Preview/Predict 4.Summarizing

5. Summarizing Main Idea Major Topic/Key Point

6. Strategies for Summarizing/Finding Main Idea Ideas from first and last sentence Transitions Repeated words Similar words Details

8. Open Reader’s Journey to page 239 Read paragraph 10 minutes to work with a partner and complete diagram for main idea/summarizing. Try to do the key point triangle, too

10. Formative Assessment Turn to page 250 in your Reader’s Journey Read Jackie Robinson at the top and fill-out diagram for text