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Provide a Summary of the Text

This reading informational text lesson teaches students how to determine the main idea and key details of a text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students are given examples where the main idea is located near the beginning of the text and near the end of the text. Students are also asked to look at other possible details and determine which would best fit the main idea of the text. This lesson provides students with a great foundation for writing informational text. This lesson includes a whiteboard insert that students can use to record their answers during the initial lesson or plan their own writing in the future.

This reading comprehension lesson helps students describe text features that make information accessible and usable. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students read a text, looking for text features, such as titles, bold, italics, bullets, etc. as well as visual features, such as charts, diagrams, illustrations, maps, etc. Then, they write in complete sentences to describe how each feature emphasizes or draws attention to specific information. In addition to the lesson, there are eight pages of Independent Practice and review with questions modeled after current adaptive testing items.