READING

=**Main Idea Lesson Ideas**=

__**Relevance-**__ Everyday you draw conclusions to form the main idea of symbols and sounds. Display these for students and have them tell you the main idea of each. This is very easy because you use your prior knowledge to make your conclusion. Authors in reading also need you to do this.

__**Practice-**__ Now try one with a visual and a sound and try to identify the main idea. Have you ever heard of advertising jobs or marketing jobs? People wit the jobs must be masters of getting the main idea across to all audiences. People with the jobs are very creative and like to use words, images, sounds, and musical tunes to get their message out. In life we are bombarded with messages in books, magazines, on the radio and TV and now even the Internet in which we have to use our skills to find the main idea and make a decision to act on it or not.

1. VISUAL AND SOUND-(1-5) These are old commericals (students will laugh at and you know they have never seen) so play one and have students work in pair share to identify the main idea/ supporting details and record it in an organizer like one of these on this page @http://my.hrw.com/nsmedia/intgos/html/igo.htm (these are printable or you can type directly in them so you could do this with students on your big screen) (A good idea would to laminate students so they can write on it and then wipe it off to try over and over and then it could turn into a great center)

CNN student News (4-5) segments would be great for practice at centers since the broadcast changes daily and students could choose a segment to find main idea and details in

2. SOUND ONLY- (1-5) Radio commercials like this one @http://www.epa.gov/osw/inforesources/news/audio/earth-eng.mp3

3. VISUAL ONLY-Comic sites like this one have a new strip each day @http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/2011/11/03 @http://www.gocomics.com/garfield

4. TEXT- Now lets try some using some nonfiction text to identify main idea with (K-2) National Geographic Magazine or (3-5) @http://tweentribune.com/frontpage This is a good time to discuss the title of a story gives us a big clue to the main idea. Take a look at the first story in the issue and have students identify the main idea and supporting details, this would be great to prepare ahead of time and use the CPS unit for students to respond by choosing the main idea and this will give the teacher immediate feedback and data to guide future instruction.

Advertising Images- These can be a little higher order. What message is each image sending.

Author's Purpose Persuade Inform Entertain

http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/kids/animals-pets-kids/mammals-kids/goat-fainting-kids/

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngyoungexplorer/readstory.html

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http://www.drivinganddining.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/0_61_hamburger1.jpg

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http://tweentribune.com/tween/would-you-harry-potter-style-treehouse