Chapter 8 – CCSS – Anchor Standard 2: Determining Central Ideas and Themes

Chapter 8 – CCSS – Anchor Standard 2

1. Determining Central Ideas and Themes

2. Strand: Reading

3. Sub-strand: Literature and Informational Texts

4. CCR Anchor Standards Cluster: Key Ideas and Details

5. CCSS Reading Anchor Standard 2:

6. Determine central ideas or themes of a texts and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.

7. Three main Reading Skills

8. Ability to determine and summarize central idea or theme

9. Ability to analyze development of ideas or themes

10. Determining the Central Idea of Theme of a Text

11. Students must understand what message the author is trying to convey

12. Students’ ability to explain how key details are arranged under the main ideas may make then more likely to be able to write logical essays and thoughtful answers to a prompt.

13. Summarizing Key Details and Ideas

14. Expected to

15. Extract most important info

16. Main characters, plot, etc

17. Write brief synopsis of the info

18. Summarize key details

19. Who, what, when, where, why, how

20. Themes in Literature

21. What is the theme of literary test?

22. Author’s message to the reader

23. What the author wants the reader to take away from the story

24. Bias

25. Often a value of judgment by the author???

26. How do the authors express these themes?

27. The title

28. Feelings of the characters

29. Characters’ thoughts and speech

30. Lesson characters learn

31. Conflict(s)

32. Events and actions, etc.

33. Instruction Straties (for both Literature and Informationl Texts)

34. Whole group and small group readings and discussions

35. Appropriate grade-level material

36. Digital storytelling

37. Have a CD player read to the kids so they don’t have to worry about reading too much

38. Summarize both kinds of texts

39. How are they going to be able to summarize the story?

40. In literature

41. Focus on story structure, retelling, and theme

42. Example: Picture It! Story Structure: S-T-O-R-Y

43. Setting

44. Talking characters

45. Oops, a problem

46. Resolution (attempts)

47. Yes, the problem is solved

48. In informational

49. Focus on the main idea and supporting details

50. Instructional Strategies

51. Kindergarten

52. Circle Maps

53. Have students write words or draw pictures*** on their maps

54. 1st Grade

55. Main Idea Puzzle

56. Model the activity

57. Cut out and paste the puzzle pieces onto a sheet of paper

58. Maybe precut the pieces for the students or laminate the pieces to use in future years!

59. 2nd Grade

60. Main Idea Hat

61. Make a hat that has the main idea on the front under a light bulb and then three supporting details cut and pasted onto the rest of the hat

62. Like a worksheet, but more fun!

63. 3rd Grade

64. Table Top

65. Groups will write the main idea on a piece of paper and then cut it out to create a “table top.” The supporting details will be written on the legs of the table.

66. Struggling students: write 2 of the supporting details and they write the other two and the main idea or you write all 4 and they have to come up with the main idea

67. Write out the main idea but leave out a word

68. 4th Grade

69. Read passage on BrainPOP and then answer the questions from the video

70. What’s the passage’s main idea?

71. What words or ideas are stressed?

72. Where in the passage is the main idea stated?

73. 5th Grade

74. Detailed Paragraph

75. Read a desk and then write a two to three paragraph essay about the main idea with the supporting details

76. Discuss vocab words before writing with informational texts

77. Differentiating for ELLs

78. Passage can be translated into L1

79. Draw pictures instead of write sentences

80. Express thoughts and ideas through oral language in groups

81. Visual guide or model

82. Go through activity slowly and clearly, repeating if necessary

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