Main Idea Task Cards and Guided Mini Lessons Unsolved Mysteries
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Main Idea Task CardsBundleThis is a bundle of all of my main idea task cards! Included are my 10 main idea task card units. This would be enough task cards to last for a couple of months! Please check out the preview for specifics of what each lesson includes. ENJOY! :)Price $20.00Original Price $28.35Save $8.35
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Main Idea
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Mini Lessons
Unsolved Mysteries
Are you looking for engaging, high interest topics to teach main idea with? This is the unit for you! The theme is unsolved mysteries. If you liked my first Unsolved Mysteries Unit, then you will love this one!
- This lesson is a main idea lesson with two parts: guided mini lessons and also an independent literacy center for practice. You can also use the literacy center for your reading intervention groups. I used it both as a center and as re-teaching main idea to my struggling readers.
- There are 10 different cards. Each card has a color picture. You can pick which answer sheet format fits your needs.
- There are 5 mini-lessons with paragraphs about unsolved mysteries.
- There are 10 main idea cards with color pictures: Can a Smartphone Solve Modern Day Mysteries?, Is Atlantis in Spain?, Ancient Stonehenge, The Bermuda Triangle "Wormhole", Alien Crop Circles, Ears Ringing?, The Vanishing of the Roanoke Colony, Little Green Men, Did You See Something?, and Casper.
How I use it:
I start the main idea unit by doing one guided lesson at the beginning of literacy, everyday for 5 days. I never go over 10 minutes. My goal is for the short repetition to become a part of their long term memory. Also, I think the first 5 minutes you have the best attention from your class. After the first week, I introduce the topics and explain the literacy center. I use it as independent practice. While I am working with reading groups, they can do the main idea center. They work at their pace throughout the week. At the end of the week, they turn in what they finished and I give them a grade according to the rubric. Then, the next week, I pull the kids who didn’t quite grasp main idea. I then use the same cards as a skill lesson with just the kids who need it. They are already familiar with the text, so this gives them confidence in group. So, I actually use this lesson for 3 weeks.
By fifth grade, many of my struggling students had been in intervention groups and had the same lessons over and over. Hopefully this is something that is new and different and will stick with those struggling students!
*I have used this with 4th, 5th, and 6th graders. I think it is perfect for anyone struggling with main idea.
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