#main idea

5 Ways to Teach Main Idea and Details to ELLs

Finding the main idea and supporting details is a reading comprehension skill that students are expected to understand starting in kindergarten. By third grade students are expected to do this with more complex texts independently. This can be a challenging skill for all students. For some ELLs they have the added challenge of not yet reading grade level texts independently. Here are 5 ideas to…

2017, one of the worst years for me honestly. Now that I think back, this year has been about change for me. This underlying main idea of my 2017 story. 

Here are some reasons I think CHANGE is the theme of my year

A long ass speech from my favorite ex-boyfriend about how change is apart of life

Getting kicked out of my group chats cause I needed to get my shit together and change (which I did) 

Christmas dinner where my Papi gave a speech about change and holding on to family

Many, Many tarot readings where the cards (mine and other peoples) roasted my ass

ETC! 

English I Honors students began 1.5 by looking at all the various stage directions that Shakespeare embeds in his text. We finished up with the tirade Tybalt goes on when he discovers Romeo’s presence. English 8 students continued with the new unit, which will focus on summarizing and outlining, which in turn relies on determining the main idea of texts. To this end, we reviewed and practiced…

First Lit Circle and Main Idea Practice

English 8 students finished up their practice of determining the main idea of a text. English I Honors students worked on their first lit circle, debriefing in a forum afterward to make sure things improve the next time.