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https://login.i-ready.com/educator/dashboard/reading

this website can be used for differentiation and additional support for students who struggle with the standard and concepts. The website offers tools such as graphic organizers, different grade level texts and comprehension questions, etc.

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https://docs.google.com/forms/u/0/?tgif=c

Google forms can be used to create a check point quiz for understanding midway throughout the lesson

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Google Forms - create and analyze surveys, for free.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXgdXzu6wXg

This will be used as a mini-lesson for writing objective summaries

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https://www.ereadingworksheets.com/worksheets/reading/theme/theme-lesson-02/

This can serve as a review before weekly formative assessment

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Here is another animated PowerPoint slideshow teaching students about literary theme. This is a revision of my first theme lesson. It includes the same definitions and explanations but NEW EXAMPLES. Also, there is a review activity at the end of it with NEW PRACTICE PROBLEMS.

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Here is another animated PowerPoint slideshow teaching students about literary theme. This is a revision of my first theme lesson. It includes the same definitions and explanations but NEW EXAMPLES. Also, there is a review activity at the end of it with NEW PRACTICE PROBLEMS.

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https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/sat-reading-and-writing-2022/x0d47bcec73eb6c4b:foundations/x0d47bcec73eb6c4b:central-ideas-and-details/a/central-ideas-and-details-lesson

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What are "central ideas and details" questions?

On the Reading and Writing section of your SAT, some questions will present a short passage for you to read. The passage may be excerpted from a work of literature or from a scholarly essay.

Once you read the passage, you'll be asked either to identify the main idea of the text or to answer a specific question based on the text.

Central ideas and details questions will look like this:

How should we think about central ideas and details questions?

Central ideas and details questions focus on reading comprehension, and they do so in a fairly straightforward way.

We won't need any outside knowledge. We won't need to analyze the text too deeply or do any complex reasoning. We'll simply need to read the passage carefully.

Central ideas

Central ideas questions ask us to identify "the main idea" of the passage. Since the passages for these questions are fairly short, finding this main idea shouldn't be too tricky.

cover a majority of the details introduced in the text.

mention any particular points of emphasis from the text.

focus too intently on just one detail from the text.

introduce new ideas not addressed within the text.

contradict information from the text.

Details questions ask us to answer a specific question about an idea contained in the passage. Details questions can usually be answered using information from one particular sentence in the text.

These questions will contain words, phrases, or ideas that direct us to the appropriate part of the text. Once there, we simply need to find the correct detail needed to answer the question.

How to approach central ideas and details questions

To solve a central ideas and details question, consider following these steps:

Don't just skim the passage. Read it closely, and try to summarize the ideas you encounter in your own words. By the time you finish reading, you should have a strong understanding of the information contained in the passage.

The question that follows the passage will reveal your task. Does it ask about the "main idea"? Or does it ask about a particular piece of information?

If the question is about the main idea, then revisit your summary of the text to find the overarching theme.

If the question asks about something specific, then head to that section of the passage to search out the correct detail.

Based on your understanding of the passage, you should be able to answer to the question fairly accurately without even looking at the choices. If someone asked you to summarize the text, what would you say?

For instance, in the example question above, we might predict that the main idea is something like

"Ashley D. Farmer has improved the study of the Black Power movement by exploring the roles of women."

Once you predict the answer in your own words, it should be pretty easy to find a match among the choices. If you're still not sure, you can eliminate your way to the answer by getting rid of choices that contradict the passage or introduce new ideas.

Stay specific

Don't stray beyond the focus of the passage. Eliminate choices that broaden or blur the ideas in discussed in the text. And look out for small twists and turns that make a choice seem relevant when it actually expresses something unsupported by the passage.

Keep your prediction as short and simple as possible

If your prediction is just as long as the passage itself, it's not simple enough! Keep simplifying it until you can sum it up in one brief idea, then use that prediction as a test. The more concise your prediction, the quicker and easier it will be to check it against the choices.

Use keywords as a map

When a question asks about a detail from the passage, it will often do so by referencing key words and phrases from the text. Find those words in the passage: they'll direct you towards the answer you seek!

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Central ideas and details | Lesson (article) | Khan Academy

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What are "central ideas and details" questions? On the Reading and Writing section of your SAT, some questions will present a short passage for you to read. The passage may be excerpted from a work of literature or from a scholarly essay.

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https://quizizz.com/admin/presentation/600eef29843bfc001c0ad45e?source=lesson_share

This can be used as a formative assessment

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https://create.kahoot.it/share/understanding-theme/43a69ccd-8735-41ab-bf54-12181deb3189

this can be used as a form of formative assessment

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https://www.flocabulary.com/unit/theme/

This video and follow along read and respond will be a mini-lesson and model session.

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Theme in Literature - Theme - Teaching Theme - Flocabulary

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Learn how to identify themes in literature with Flocabulary's educational hip-hop video and activities.

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https://nearpod.com/t/english-language-arts/8th/themes-68-L70085366?oc=lesson-library&utm_source=link

This can be used as an interactive presentation that defines theme, how to find it, and independent practice with locating the theme of a text.

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https://nearpod.com/t/english-language-arts/6th/central-idea-summary-68-L70132873?oc=lesson-library&utm_source=link

This can be used as an interactive presentation over central ideas. Guiding students on finding the central idea of a text and providing practice with central idea.