Central Idea & Supporting Details

Central Idea & Supporting Details

What is this text about?

Learning Targets - Today's Goals

• Literacy Goal: I can analyze the development of a central idea and supporting details over the course of a text.

• Language Goal: I can use academic language, such as relevant details, to ask and answer questions about central ideas and essential details in an informational text.

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What do you know?

What is the central idea of a text?

• The central idea is what the text is mainly about (usually a brief sentence of few words).

• The central idea is the same as the topic.

• The central idea is all of the details about the topic.

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What do you know?

What is the topic of a text?

• Who or what the text is about (one or two words)

• A sentence explaining the main idea.

• All the details about thext.

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Multiple Choice

Chris "Kesz" Valdez knows what it's like to be homeless. Kesz ran away from his abusive family at age four. He slept in a dump in Cravite City, in the Philippines. When he was seven, Kesz was rescued. A social worker rescued Kesz after he fell into a pile of burning tires, badly burning his arms.

What is the central idea of the paragraph?

• Kesz knows what it's like to be homeless.

• Kesz was rescued by a social worker.

• Kesz's family was abusive.

• Kesz lived at a dump.

Multiple Choice

Kesz now has a home and an adoptive family. He lives with the social worker who rescued him. And he's helping kids still stuck on the streets where he used to live. By age eight, he founded Championing Community Children. This group distributes clothing and toiletries to thousands of homeless kids in Cavite City.

What's he central idea of the previous paragraph?

• Kesz founded Championing Community Children.

• Kesz now has a home an an adoptive family.

• He lives with the social worker who rescued him.

• His group distributes clothing and toiletries to thosands of homeless children in Cavite City.

Now for the details.

• The details in a paragraph should support the central idea.

• Details are proof that you have the correct central idea.

Let's look at paragraph 1 again. What details support the central idea that Kesz knows what it's like to be homeless?

Chris "Kesz" Valdez knows what it's like to be homeless. Kesz ran away from his abusive family at age four. He slept in a dump in Cravite City, in the Philippines. When he was seven, Kesz was rescued. A social worker rescued Kesz after he fell into a pile of burning tires, badly burning his arms.

Multiple Choice

Chris "Kesz" Valdez knows what it's like to be homeless. Kesz ran away from his abusive family at age four. He slept in a dump in Cravite City, in the Philippines. When he was seven, Kesz was rescued. A social worker rescued Kesz after he fell into a pile of burning tires, badly burning his arms.

What detail supports Kesz knows what it's like to be homeless?

• Kesz ran away from his abusive family at age four.

• Kesz lived in a nice house with a great family.

• Kesz never had to worry about being homeless.

• By age eight, he founded Champion Community Children.

Multiple Choice

Chris "Kesz" Valdez knows what it's like to be homeless. Kesz ran away from his abusive family at age four. He slept in a dump in Cravite City, in the Philippines. When he was seven, Kesz was rescued. A social worker rescued Kesz after he fell into a pile of burning tires, badly burning his arms.

Let's try another. What detail supports that Kesz knows what it's like to be homeless?

• His charity distributes clothing and toiletries to thousands of children and Cravite City.

• He won the Children's International Nobel Peace Prize.

• Desmond Tutu awarded Kesz with his prize.

• Kesz slept in a dump in Cravite City in the Philippines.

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How do you feel about your understanding of central ideas?

• Great

• Not Great

• Somewhere in the middle

• I need more help.

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How is your understanding of finding supporting details?

• Great

• Not Great

• Neither Great or Not Great

• I need more help.

What should you do now?

• Any late work you owe me. (This includes writing the essay on Climate Change and the Eyes on the Tide articles)

• Independent Reading/student application- Achieve 300

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