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Beacon Learning Center: Web Lessons: Get the Main Idea Unit PlanBeacon Learning Center: Web Lessons: Get the Main Idea Unit Plan
Publisher
Beacon Learning Center
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Grade
3rd - 5th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Unit Plans
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Instructional Strategy
Independent Practice
Lexile Measures
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Unit Plan

Beacon Learning Center: Web Lessons: Get the Main Idea

Curated by ACT

This resource provides practice finding the main idea by having students read a paragraph and choose the main idea. Then it asks students to take what they have learned and apply it to a book of their choice, and then write a paragraph of their own and illustrate it.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

reading comprehension

Additional Tags

main idea activities, reading and themes, reading and understanding, main idea, main idea or theme

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 2 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional|practice
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

Common Core

RI.5.2 RI.3.2 RI.4.2 CCRA.R.2 CCRA.R.3 RI.4.8 RL.3.7 SL.3.1.d RI.5.6 RL.4.2 RI.3.6 W.5.1.a W.4.1.a RI.3.9 W.4.9.a RL.3.3 W.5.9.a RL.5.2 RL.4.7 RL.5.3 W.3.2.a SL.5.3 SL.4.5

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