Then I look at my details to find out what make sense and which details are most important. When I am done reading I go back and look at my details and again I think to myself what is this book mostly about. As I go through the book I am identifying the details. As I pull out details I am going to write them on a strip. Today we help find the main idea by identifying important and unimportant details. Teach Model: When readers think about or have an idea about what their story or passage they have a better understanding of what the whole idea of the story is and they are more likely to remember that story. Today I am going to teach you how to identify details in a story by picking out important details and using those details to determine the main idea of a story.
We asked what is this story mostly about. Do-Now: What are 2 details in your life, one necessary one unnecessary.Ĭonnection: Yesterday we asked ourselves a question when we were reading.
