Subject: ELA (English Language Arts)
Lesson Length: 45 mins - 1 hour
Topic: Central Ideas of Informational Text
Brief Description: Students will read an informational text article and determine the central ideas of the text.
Know Before You Start:
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Students should have a basic understanding of how to determine the central ideas of text prior to the lesson.
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An informational article or resource will be needed for the lesson.
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Find examples of entertaining “Tweets” from Twitter.
Hook: Show several entertaining “Tweets” to demonstrate how Twitter tweets summarize a central idea. Discuss that tweets have a limit of 280 characters.
Activity: Have students:
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Read the information text selected.
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Write three Tweets summarizing the central ideas of the article.
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Illustrate their summary Tweets by creating a 3-panel comic demonstrating the central ideas of the text.
Closure: Students will share their comics in small groups and discuss the central ideas of the informational text.
Differentiation:
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Pre-teach necessary vocabulary pertaining to the informational text article.
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Provide sentence starters.
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Provide informational text articles at student reading level.
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Allow students to work with a peer model.
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Allow students to read another article and complete the same task for enrichment.
Resources:
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Comic to print or display: Comic.
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Example Tweet messages.
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Informational Text Article.
Suggested Content Pack(s):
Rainforest
