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Reading Summary and Main Idea Lesson

This lesson plan is for a language arts class focusing on reading skills. Students will learn to identify text features, understand an author's purpose, and use glossaries to define unfamiliar words. The lesson objectives are for students to understand text content and themes, and use glossaries. Assessment will be informal through observation and collecting work. Learning activities include introducing summarization, analyzing pictures and objects to identify main ideas and details, working in groups to read and summarize passages, and writing and sharing short stories for peers to summarize. Differentiation strategies include varying activity difficulties and providing supports. The teacher reflected that students were engaged in the lesson and successfully summarized passages in groups and stories, with guidance to connect individual group summaries into an overall main idea.

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Reading Summary and Main Idea Lesson

This lesson plan is for a language arts class focusing on reading skills. Students will learn to identify text features, understand an author's purpose, and use glossaries to define unfamiliar words. The lesson objectives are for students to understand text content and themes, and use glossaries. Assessment will be informal through observation and collecting work. Learning activities include introducing summarization, analyzing pictures and objects to identify main ideas and details, working in groups to read and summarize passages, and writing and sharing short stories for peers to summarize. Differentiation strategies include varying activity difficulties and providing supports. The teacher reflected that students were engaged in the lesson and successfully summarized passages in groups and stories, with guidance to connect individual group summaries into an overall main idea.

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Missouri Western Lesson Plan

Content Area: Language Arts- Reading

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State Standards:
Text features- use multiple text features to locate information and gain an overview of the contents of text
Text features- explain author’s purpose
Vocabulary- using a dictionary or glossary to determine the meanings, syllabication, and pronunciation of
unknown words

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Objectives:
The student will be able to identify parts of the text and understand text content, including
main idea and supporting details.
The student will be able to give a theme for the reading.
The students will use the glossary at the beginning of the reading to find the meaning of
unfamiliar words.

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Assessment:
Assessment will be informal and formative. I will monitor student activity as they work on
reading and highlighting key parts of the story. I will also collect their graphic organizers.

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Learning Activities (Procedures):
1. Introduce with an anchor chart over what summarizing is and how to find the big
idea in a piece.
2. We will look at pictures and objects in bags.
3. We will as a class identify the big idea of the supplies. What is the main idea?
These items are supporting details.
4. Steps 2 and 3 will be repeated but the teacher will tell a story as she removes the items and
students will summarize.
5. Now students will work in small groups (our class is split into color groups).
6. Students will read a nonfiction story called “Whale Sharks: Giant Fish” and fill out
the Giants of the World Activity Card.
7. It will be jigsaw style of activity where students form one set of groups to collect
information and read, while they return to their original group to report out a
summary.
8. We will review at the end and discuss what we put. We will talk about what big
ideas are and whether our details support the big ideas.
9. Students will write a short story independently on a flashcard. Some students will
read their story aloud.
10. Another student will have 2 sentences to summarize their peers story.

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Instructional Strategies (Including Technology):
● Collaborative learning
● Hands on learning
● Differentiation
● Group discussion
● Problem based inquiry
● Jigsaw

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Differentiation/Accommodations/Modifications:
● Different difficulties of inquiry bags
● Extra organizers for story telling and summarizing end activity
● Flexible grouping
● Bullet notes or sentences for evidence section of worksheet
● Jigsaw to help hold accountable but a group to support as well

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_______Daily Lesson Reflection

This lesson went very well and the students seemed very engaged. I think the introduction
using the mystery bags helped to get them excited and put meaning and purpose to future
activity. I also think this is an experience we can reference in the future as we work on
summarizing. The group work went well and I roamed the room working to get them back
on task as groups began chatting about non-related material. They were able to come up
with good main ideas in their small groups over their section of the readings but struggled
with identifying a summary of the whole reading by putting each group’s part and sharing
together. When prompted to take it a step farther than the main idea of the book was
“whale sharks” students were able to put together the groups’ main ideas to form an
overall main idea. During the writing, students had a lot of fun sharing and summarizing
stories, we worked until it was time to go to lunch.
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