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Reading Strategy 7

“Determine the most important ideas and events and the relationship between them.”

Good readers analyze the text to differentiate between important ideas and events and supporting details. In later primary, they are able to describe relationships between these ideas and justify them.

Header-Reading-Activities

  • Anticipation Guide
  • Bookmark
  • Collaborative Summaries
  • Concept Circles
  • Jigsaw
  • Listen-Sketch-Predict
  • Oral Retelling
  • Paper Bag Presentation
  • Plot Profile – Story Graph
  • Plot Profile – Story Map
  • Semantic Mapping/Webbing
  • Story Board
  • Story Cycles
  • Story Grammar
  • Think Aloud
  • Thinking While Reading
  • What’s Inside?

Header-Reading-Writing-Connect-Activities-2Primary
  • 10 idées écolos pour sauver ma planète
  • 10 Things I Can Do to Help My World
  • Bats at the Library
  • Dooby Dooby Moo
  • Emu
  • The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School
  • I Wish You More
  • Is There Really a Human Race?
  • In My Heart
  • Les forces, c’est quoi?
  • Move Over, Rover!
  • Peace Is an Offering
  • Salmon Creek
  • Spaghetti and Meatballs for All!
  • Taan’s Moon
  • The BFG
  • The Most Magnificent Thing
  • The Salamander Room
  • Who is the Forest For?

Intermediate
  • Baseball Saved Us
  • Crickwing
  • La belle lisse poire
  • Le livre des petits pourquoi
  • Mr. Hiroshi’s Garden
  • One Grain of Rice
  • Orca Chief
  • Storm Boy
  • The Man Who Counted
  • The One and Only Ivan
  • The Rabbits (Intermediate)

 Secondary
  • A Coyote Columbus Story
  • Childhood Obesity
  • The Emperor of Maladies
  • Legend of the Sugar Girl
  • L’il Trig’s Big Adventure
  • Navigating Panama Canal North
  • Thank You, M’am
  • The Knife of Never Letting Go
  • The Rabbits (Secondary)
  • The Trouble with Testosterone
  • Vaccine Effectiveness
  • Way Home
  • We Are All Born Free

teacher hints

Suggested teacher questions:

"What do you think are the key issues/ideas?"

"What clues help us determine the main idea?" (Topic sentences? Headings? Bold words? Supporting details?)

"What caused this event?"

"How do these events relate to each other and the main idea?"

"What happened first, next, ... finally?"

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