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Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
Standard #: LAFS.1.RI.1.2Archived Standard
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General Information
Subject Area: English Language Arts
Grade: 1
Strand: Reading Standards for Informational Text
Idea: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts
Cluster: Key Ideas and Details
Date Adopted or Revised: 12/10
Content Complexity Rating: Level 2: Basic Application of Skills & Concepts - More Information
Date of Last Rating: 02/14
Status: State Board Approved - Archived
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Lesson Plans
  • Animals Are Amazing! # In this lesson, students will use What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? by Steve Jenkins and Robin Page to identify the main topic and relavant details. Students will complete a 3-2-1 card, a group poster and presentation, and an independent expository writing piece to demonstrate their new learning about some amazing animals.
  • "What Plants Need" – Identifying the topic and details # In this reading lesson, students will complete activities centered around the text, What Plants Need. Students will identify the topic and multiple details, answer discussion questions, and write an expository paragraph about what they have learned.
  • A Tree Is a Plant - Step by Step # In this lesson, students will participate in multiple readings of the text A Tree Is a Plant by Clyde Robert Bulla, They will complete a K-W-L chart about trees, answer text dependent questions in pairs, and learn about the parts of a paragraph when writing their own expository text. This paragraph will include a topic sentence, supporting details, and a conclusion. This lesson provides great background information and extension activities to support learning in science as well as reading!
  • Going on a Bear Hunt! # In this lesson, students will complete a KWL chart about bears with a few bear hunts in between. After they learn about topics and details, they will read a book about bears. Using their knew knowledge they will write a five-sentence paragraph. This paragraph will contain a topic sentence, three facts, and a closing sentence. Students will be given a checklist to assess their work.
  • Learning About Community Helpers # Students will learn about the important jobs of the community helpers in their city or neighborhood. After reading Whose Tools Are These? and Helpers in Your Neighborhood, they will write an expository paragraph about a helper of their choice.
  • Using National Geographic Reader: Frogs! To Explore Topic and Detail # This unit focuses on using text features to understand non-fiction text, specifically National Geographic Reader: Frogs! by Elizabeth Carney. The students will participate in a whole group activity where a portion of text will be analyzed for its topic and details and the teacher will write a paragraph about it using shared writing. The students will then apply the skills they learned as they create a topic and detail table and write an expository paragraph.
  • Rules/Laws Read Aloud Incorporating Main Topic # In this lesson, students will learn laws of the classroom and community all while determining the main idea.
  • Night Sky Introduction # This lesson plan is an introductory lesson for first graders on the objects seen in the night sky and stars.
  • Bird Beaks: Determining the Topic # This lesson focuses on writing a summary using the topic and relevant details through the reading of a nonfiction text on bird beaks.
  • The Topic Matters! (A Lesson on Gases) 3 of 3 #

    This lesson focuses on students identifying topic and relevant details in an informational science text on gases. Students will also sort pictures of gases and non-gases.

  • What is a Scientist? Topic and Relevant Details # This lesson is intended to support students in finding the topic and relevant details in a text, also exposing students to the role and importance of scientists. Using an informational text, students will read about what scientists do and why they are important. After reading about scientists, students will write a summary identifying the topic and relevant details from the text. Then, they will share their summaries with partners in the classroom.
  • The Topic Matters! (A Lesson on Liquids) 2 of 3 #

    This lesson focuses on topic and relevant details. Students will complete a graphic organizer based on an informational text about liquids.

  • Central Idea: Where is Matter? #

    This lesson focuses on central idea and details using a science informational text on the states of matter entitled What is the World Made of? All about Solids, Liquids, and Gases. Students will write a summary which identifies the central idea and relevant details from this text.

  • I'm Seeing Starfish # In this lesson, students will work with two texts, Starfish by Edith Thacher Hurd and Discovering Starfish by Lorijo Metz. As they learn facts about starfish, they will also discuss an important text feature that readers use. Students will write an expository paragraph about starfish to culminate their learning.
  • Studying Text Features with Polar Bears # This lesson focuses on using text features to understand nonfiction text, specifically the National Geographic Reader: Polar Bears, by Laura Marsh. The students will use a text features anchor chart to support student understanding of how these features contribute to the meaning of a text. Students will read and take notes to answer specific questions about the text and use those notes to write a paragraph about polar bears.
  • The Topic Matters (A Lesson On Solids) 1 of 3 #

    This lesson focuses on the concept of topic and relevant details and writing summary about science content on solids.

Original Student Tutorial
  • Topical Travels # Identify paragraphs in a text, use key details to identify the topic of a paragraph, and identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text using the topics and details from each paragraph in this Florida-themed interactive tutorial.
Student Center Activities
Original Student Tutorials for Language Arts - Grades K-5
  • Topical Travels # Identify paragraphs in a text, use key details to identify the topic of a paragraph, and identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text using the topics and details from each paragraph in this Florida-themed interactive tutorial.
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