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Middle school ELA test prep graphic organizers for SMART Notebook

Main Idea & Summarizing: "Vaqueros:...", Journeys 5.23 Smartboard

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This Smartboard Notebook file is a graphic organizer for the Journeys-5 selection "Vaqueros: America's First Cowboys" (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012), lesson 5.23. Students add main ideas and details to the organizer. There is also a summarizing exercise. My students score better on comprehension assessments when they use a graphic organizer while reading. The format of the exercise mimics items on the Smarter Balance ELA practice test. The product is also available as a Word Docx. This fil

Subjects:

ELA Test Prep, Reading Strategies, Writing

Grades:

4th - 6th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

RL.5.1

, W.5.8

Main Idea Unit with Passages, Games, Etc. for Middle School .Notebook Smartboard

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Mermy

Looking to teach the strategies of Main Idea to a group of students? Look no more! This unit has motivations, games, activities, passages, and graphic organizers to help students learn how to utilize main idea in their own books/passages/test prep! Passages were pulled from various test prep Common Core materials generated by other teachers. Can be used for grades 5-9 depending on level. Pages in this .Notebook file include: Motivation games Song Lyrics- finding the main idea Graphic Organizers

Subjects:

ELA Test Prep, Informational Text, Reading Strategies

Grades:

4th - 10th

Types:

Interactive Whiteboard, Games, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

RI.4.2

, RI.5.2

, RI.6.2

, RI.7.2

, RI.8.2