Identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
| Course Number1111 |
Course Title222 |
| 5010010: | English for Speakers of Other Languages-Elementary (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022 (course terminated)) |
| 5010020: | Basic Skills in Reading-K-2 (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2021, 2021 and beyond (current)) |
| 5010030: | Functional Basic Skills in Communications-Elementary (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current)) |
| 5021030: | Social Studies Grade 1 (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2022, 2022 - 2023, 2023 and beyond (current)) |
| 5010042: | Language Arts - Grade One (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2021, 2021 and beyond (current)) |
| 7710012: | Access Language Arts - Grade 1 (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2018, 2018 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current)) |
| 7721012: | Access Social Studies - Grade 1 (Specifically in versions: 2014 - 2015, 2015 - 2018, 2018 - 2023, 2023 and beyond (current)) |
| 5011010: | Library Skills/Information Literacy Grade 1 (Specifically in versions: 2016 - 2022, 2022 - 2023, 2023 and beyond (current)) |
| 5010101: | Introduction to Debate Grade 1 (Specifically in versions: 2020 - 2022, 2022 and beyond (current)) |
| Name |
Description |
| 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 Main Idea Matters! (A Lesson on Gases) 3 of 3 | This lesson teaches main idea and details incorporating a science lesson on 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 Main Idea Matters! (A Lesson on Liquids) 2 of 3 | This lesson teaches main idea and details incorporating a science lesson on liquids. |
| 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. |
| Main Idea: Where is Matter? | This lesson teaches main idea and details incorporating a science lesson on matter.Teachers will utilize a KWL chart to help assess students' background knowledge, as well as what they want to learn, and what they have learned at the end of the lesson. An informational text entitled What is the World Made of? All about Solids, Liquids, and Gases will be used throughout the lesson. As a summative assessment, students will write a summary which identifies the main idea and key details from this text. |
| 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 Main Idea Matters (A Lesson On Solids) 1 of 3 | This lesson teaches the concept of main idea and details and writing informational/expository text using science content on solids. |
