Main Idea.

We have been spending some time focusing on nonfiction.  Students are learning that authors write with a main idea in mind.  The main idea is a key idea, sentence or fact that the author wants us to remember.  It informs us what the rest of the passage or section is mostly about. Then they identified the details that went with it. We did an activity where students had to find the other students who had a card about their same topic.  Within their cards, they had to work together to find the main idea. Students also watched a video and saw how other kids found the main idea. The video can be found to the right under "Educational Videos." We will continue to review and practice this skill all year.