Lessons tagged with "central-message"

This reading comprehension lesson focuses on retelling stories and details that express the central message or lesson. The lesson is intended to be taught as a read-aloud, with Independent Practice and Periodic Reviews to be teacher guided. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments.

This reading literature lesson covers how to determine the central message in a narrative or literary text. The lesson includes research-based strategies and strategic questions that prepare students for assessments. In this lesson, students will read the text, identify a character, and then identify a clue word that shows the character learned a lesson about life. What the character learns is then identified as the central message.

This reading literature lesson explains how to determine the central message of a text. In this lesson, students will discuss the main events of a text and choose which of several possible sentences would best show the central message.