Determine Importance What’s the big idea?.

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Determine Importance What’s the big idea?

Determining Importance Good readers look for things that help them identify big ideas and why they are important.

Before reading… Look at text features for clues: Titles and headings Bold print Pictures and captions Graphs and charts Chapter objectives and questions

Stopping a Toppling Tower Title What do you think this piece is about? Do you think it’s fiction or non-fiction? Stopping a Toppling Tower by Mary Kay Carson

Headings What do the headings tell you about the piece? What do you think the piece is about now? Headings in the text: The Problem The Solution

Bold Print What words are bolded in this piece? Why do you think they are bolded?

Pictures and Captions What pictures are added to this piece? What do they add to the writing? How do they help us understand what is written?

Graphs and Charts Are there any graphs or charts in this piece? What are they about? Why is the information presented in chart form?

Chapter Objectives and Questions Are there any questions asked of the reader in this piece? What are they? What do the questions add to the piece?

While Reading… In your head you may hear yourself saying… The big idea is… Most important information is… So far I’ve learned… The author is saying… This idea is similar to…

Stopping a Toppling Tower Create the following chart: Big Idea Summaries Details

Chart Big Idea: The one big idea of the selected piece. Summaries: Use the detail notes to create a one-sentence summary to go in the middle column. Create several one-sentence summaries of different sections or paragraphs of a text. Details: Key words, phrases and examples from the piece.

Stopping a Toppling Tower Big Idea Summaries Details

Writing a Summary Now that you have created a chart with all the important details, and summaries about each section, write a one paragraph summary of the piece. It should tell only the main facts, not specific details. Keep in mind… your summary should be brief but should give someone who has never read the piece a good idea of what it was about.