Informational Text – Summarize Main Ideas & Supporting Details

Grade: 5

Subject: ELA

Topic: Informational Text – Summarize Main Ideas & Supporting Details

DescriptionAfter teacher modeling and discussion of choosing the best main idea with supporting details for a video news article, students will choose one news story at their reading level to read and write a main idea with supporting details (using the box and bullet format). Students will use electronic devices to read the article, record their main ideas and details with boxes and bullets digitally. Students will view other students main ideas & details and provide feedback on how the technology used was for the task, as well as self-assess their own progress in summarizing the main idea.

TEKS: 5.11 Reading/Comprehension of Informational Text/Expository Text. Students analyze, make inferences and draw conclusions about expository text and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to:(A) summarize the main ideas and supporting details in a text in ways that maintain meaning and logical order; -R

Tech TEKS 5.2 C collaborate effectively through personal learning communities and social environments; 5.4 C evaluate student-created products through self and peer review for relevance to the assignment or task

4 C’s: Collaborate, Critical Thinking

Resources: Lesson Plan, NewsELA

Device Type: iPad, Chromebook, Laptop, Samsung Tablet

Suggested Apps: NewselaElem, Google Classroom, Google Docs/Slides