Wednesday, September 5 th

1. Wednesday, September 5th Essential Question(s): How do readers use their own words to summarize the main idea? How do readers identify the main idea when it is explicitly stated? How do readers look back in text for recalling and locating details? How do readers use graphic organizers to show understanding of text? Journal Write Mini-lesson: Main idea Read chapters 1-2 of The Fault in Our Stars as part of the workshop on identifying main ideas. ELACC8W4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. ELACC8RI2: Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text.

2. ELACC8W4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. ELACC8RI2: Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text. Journal Write

3. ELACC8RI2: Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text. Main idea notes • The main idea of a text is what the text is all about. • Supporting details add support to the main idea. • They illustrate why the main idea is what the text is all about. • You can usually find the main idea of a passage, even if it is not directly stated, by summarizing the details that are given.

4. ELACC8L4: Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words or phrases based on grade 8 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies. Vocabulary Words • Main Idea -- the most important or central thought of a paragraph or larger section of text, which tells the reader what the text is about: Find the main idea in each paragraph. • Supporting Details -- statements which support your topic or theme • Inference -- A judgment based on reasoning rather than on direct or explicit statement; a conclusion based on facts or circumstances. • Relevant/Irrelevant Details • Drawing Conclusions • Summarizing • Paraphrasing (Rephrasing, Restatement) • Generalizing

5. Workshop Session  • Read The Fault in Our Stars. • Use your graphic organizer to identify the main idea and supporting details of reading selections from chapters 1-2 of The Fault in Our Stars. • http://teacher.scholastic.com/reading/bestpractices/vocabulary/pdf/sr_allgo.pdf ELACC8RI2: Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text. ELACC6W4: Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.