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The lesson plan teaches 5th grade students about determining main ideas and key details in informational texts. Students will practice identifying main ideas and key details by analyzing sentences and paragraphs. They will then create a "main idea cube" to demonstrate their understanding, listing one main idea and four key details from a text they choose. The lesson incorporates group work, class discussion, and individual assessment to help students meet the lesson objective of distinguishing relevant details to determine the main idea of an informational text.

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Main Idea

The lesson plan teaches 5th grade students about determining main ideas and key details in informational texts. Students will practice identifying main ideas and key details by analyzing sentences and paragraphs. They will then create a "main idea cube" to demonstrate their understanding, listing one main idea and four key details from a text they choose. The lesson incorporates group work, class discussion, and individual assessment to help students meet the lesson objective of distinguishing relevant details to determine the main idea of an informational text.

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Direct Instruction Lesson Plan Template

Grade Level/Subject: 5th grade/ Reading

Central Focus: Main Idea/ Key Details

Essential Standard/Common Core Objective:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.5.2
Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they
are supported by key details; summarize the text.

Date taught: 10/31/14

Daily Lesson Objective: Students will be able to distinguish relevant details to determine the main idea of an
informational text.
21st Century Skills:
Academic Language Demand (Language Function and Vocabulary):
Creativity and Innovation
Main Idea/ Key Details
Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
Summarize
Explain
Identify
Prior Knowledge: Able to summarize a text

Activity

Description of Activities and Setting

Time

Students are given an envelope with four sentences. Student will be


identifying the main idea and key details with the students at their tables.
1. Focus and Review

2. Statement of Objective
for Student
3. Teacher Input

4. Guided Practice

5. Independent Practice

5 min
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Students will be able to identify the main idea and key detail when reading
informational text
Discuss what is a main idea?
What is a key detail?
How do you determine a main idea from a key detail?
Practice as a class. Identify the main idea and key details of the two
paragraphs
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Students will create main idea cube with four key details and one irrelevant
detail. Students can choose any informational text of their choosing
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5min

10 min

20 min

6. Assessment Methods of
all objectives/skills:
7. Closure

Students identify one main idea, 3 key detail and one 1 relevant details
Review main idea/ key details. Students share main idea cubes and clean up.

Targeted Students Modifications/Accommodations:


Differentiated texts

Student/Small Group Modifications/Accommodations:


n/a

Materials/Technology:
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http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Main-Idea-Bridge-Practice-Summer-Heat-1326153
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Main-Idea-Bridge-Practice-The-Storm-1326160
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Main-Idea-Cube-131671

5 min

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