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This activity helps students differentiate between theme and main idea. Students sort 12 cards and 2 definitions under "Theme" or "Main Idea".
Upper elementary tips and resources for teaching main idea vs. theme. Includes anchor charts, sorts, and discussion questions.
5th Grade ELA Anchor Chart
Discover how picture books help teaching main idea and using books to teach theme, including specific examples for many books.
My most popular post is teaching about Main Idea vs. Theme together. It has changed how students think about main idea and theme statements.
Teaching students to find the main idea and supporting details of a text is a complex and important nonfiction reading skill.
Main idea and theme can be some of the most difficult topics to teach my first graders, so I thought I would share some of my favorite picture books I use to teach these skills in my classroom. Favorite main idea and theme read alouds: Sheila Rae, The Brave by Kevin Henkes This story […]
My most popular post is teaching about Main Idea vs. Theme together. It has changed how students think about main idea and theme statements.
Today, let's talk about THEME and MAIN IDEA.
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Students read a passage from Rudyard Kipling's book, The Jungle Book, and write the main idea in the large oval and two supporting ideas in the small, linked ovals.
This summer is about to come to an end for many of us. Like you, I had many "classroom tasks" that I wanted to complete before the new year started. One thing on my list was to tackle my classroom library. Before now, my books were just randomly placed bookshelves and had no organization to them AT ALL! People who know me well would find this out of character for me. Organization is my middle name! Anyway, my biggest dilemma was.....how do I want to organize my books- by reading level, subject, author, or genre? I mean there are a million ways to organize a classroom library! After much debate, I decided to organize my books by genre. Why? Because I use a Reader's Workshop approach in my classroom, and I spend a lot of time teaching the students the characteristics of genres and encourage them to read across genres. Here is a look at how I organized my library using clear baskets from Oriental Trading. My book baskets are all labeled by genre. I still have to put the finishing touches on my library before school starts. I plan to make labels to put on the books so the students will know what basket a book belongs in. ****If you would like to download a template of my labels, click here. I don't know about you, but I have some books that I just use for instruction. When I first started teaching, I placed all my books on the shelves for my students to checkout. Unfortunately, I found that many of the books went missing, and I had to replace them. Lesson learned! For the books that I use as mentor texts or for literacy stations, I organized them by subject...on a different shelf. :) To help the students learn more about the classroom library organization and about genres, I plan to use the first few weeks of school exposing my students to the different books from all the genres. As a class, we will complete notes on each genre's characteristics (focusing on the plots, characters, and settings) of fiction. For poetry and nonfiction books, we will look at structural elements and text features. I will start by using my Reader's Workshop Folder resource the first week of school. This file contains all of the genre note templates, as well as all the materials my students will need to track the genres they are reading throughout the school year. Visit my TpT store for a closer look at this resource. I am excited and ready for school to start! I already feel like the school year has started out so smoothly.....and the students haven't even stepped foot in the classroom! LOL!!! For those of you that already have an organized classroom library, I applaud you. You were already onto something! If you haven't organized your library or if you don't like your current system, maybe this post will inspire you! Looking for more Back to School Tips??? I have teamed up with several 3rd-5th grade bloggers to not only share some great Back to School Tips, but to offer you an opportunity to win some TpT cash! I will be giving away a $25 TpT Gift Cards to two of my lucky readers! All you have to do is enter below. The giveaway will end August 2nd. a Rafflecopter giveaway Visit my other blogger friends for more Back to School Tips and chances to win TpT cash! In all, we are giving away over $1,000 in TpT gift cards. An InLinkz Link-up
How to find the main idea for elementary #whalecometoelementary
I love incorporating themes into my instruction. I have been wanting to come up with a lesson that incorporated a CIRCUS theme, and I thou...
Today we are going to provide two brand-new strategies for discussing and identifying the main idea. Before we begin, though, let’s get on the same page.
MAIN IDEA ANCHOR CHART! 🐤 I like to look at the main idea like using Twitter. Twitter is usually one or two sentences. How can you summarize the whole story using one or two sentences? It is short and gets to the point.
This is a movie watch along for Wall-E. This product focuses on main idea and theme, along with supporting details for both. This is a great product to help keep students on task during a movie day and also a great assessment for main idea and theme. I hope you enjoy it! Please rate and review.
Teach main idea using these fun anchor charts! From pizza to animals to ice cream, there are many ways to explain main idea.
