Ms. Sacco, the ELA curriculum coordinator, worked with the class last week on understanding the main idea. She incorporated several lessons into the week. One early lesson was that she had the class categorize objects and word lists. She reviewed the fairy tale picture book Golidocks and explained that, just like Goldilocks, they have to find the "just right" main idea or category label. They worked on writing and editing their main ideas to make sure that they were not too general, too specific, but just right. After sorting objects and random word lists, they sorted new vocabulary words based on the colonies in social studies. After sorting words and phrases, they went on to finding the main idea in paragraghs. This was challenging because not all the main ideas were explicit. So they needed to find all the details that were based on the same idea and develop a main idea. After, they analyzed all the main ideas to decide if they were "Goldilocks" or just right. Some of them needed to adjust their original main idea because they were too general or too specific. The students worked hard and looked forward to the daily lessons!
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| Students turning and talking. |
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| Word sort |
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| Word sort with category label |
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| Social studies word sort |
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| Finding the main idea in a paragraph. |
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