Tap your toes and give a snap to a jazz inspired song showcasing a paragraph's main idea. Pupils hear about a paragraph's structure, including its topic sentence, supporting details, and the conclusion, and how they relate to identifying the main idea. 

Concepts

main ideas, paragraph writing, paragraphs, reading paragraphs, topic sentences, supporting details, conclusions

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Additional Tags

english language arts

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Instructional Ideas

• Hook learners with a song; begin instruction playing a music video
• Take musical brain breaks when scholars are in need of a instructional pause 

Classroom Considerations

• Further instruction about the main idea is required, particularly main idea location 
• An ad appears around 10 seconds into the video 

• This video is hosted on YouTube

Pros

• Paragraph elements are highlighted when the song sings their definition 

Cons

• The example paragraph gets the pojnt across, but it is not the strongest of writing samples
• Graphics appear old when compared to more recent videos 

Common Core

RI.K.2 RI.1.2 RI.2.2 RI.3.2 W.K.5 W.1.5 W.2.5 W.3.5