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Informational Text. MAIN IDEA LEADS TO SUMMARY. Summary. 3 Ways to Annotate Text. Annotating for Main Idea Annotating for Text Evidence: After Reading : Proving Answers (Test Taking Strategy)

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  1. Informational Text MAIN IDEA LEADS TO SUMMARY

  2. Summary

  3. 3 Ways to Annotate Text • Annotating for Main Idea • Annotating for Text Evidence: AfterReading: Proving Answers (Test Taking Strategy) • Annotating for Comprehension Monitoring: During Reading: AKA Close Reading

  4. Looking at STAAR: An Experiment • A Dessert with a Long History • Read the Passage • Put a +sign next to the sentence that seems to capture the essence or message of the paragraph. • Share • Read the + sentences

  5. Synthesizing + into Main Ideas • Intro: Ice cream has not always been easy to get. • 2: Before freezers, people found ways to make ice cream. • 3: But their ice cream was not like ours today. • 4: It wasn’t popular because it was hard to make. • 5: Nancy Johnson invented a machine that made it easier to make ice cream. • 6: The idea for a cone came from a waffle. • 7: The first ice cream bar on a stick • 8: Ice cream is popular in the USA • 9: How to make it

  6. How is it tested? • Answer choice G • Synthesizes paragraphs 2-4: Hundreds of years ago people began making different frozen desserts. Europeans brought the idea to America. • Synthesizes paragraphs 4-9: New ideas about how to make and serve the frozen treat have led to its wide popularity.

  7. Squirrels Using Snakeskin?

  8. An Instructional Approach • WARNING: BME will NOT always work any more. TEA looks for “tricks” that bypass thinking and designs questions to make tricks ineffective. See answer choices for proof. • Teach + annotations through gradual release • Synthesize coding into main idea sentences.

  9. An Instructional Approach Continued • Synthesize main idea sentences into summary paragraphs. • Teach how to select the best summary statement from 4 choices.

  10. An Anchor Chart? Details Main Idea Topic + details + what is being said about the topic= main idea The main point Vital, essential, important for understanding the whole passage All the details point toward General: The point the author is trying to get across • Interesting • Your opinion • Cool idea • Could stand alone as a fact • Details, examples, facts, explanations, etc. • Specific

  11. http://www.brainpop.com/english/writing/mainidea/ Brain Pop

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