1. August 2016
Mrs. Burchette

2. Homework and Important Dates:
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Homework and Important Dates:
Read 20 minutes nightly!
Warm-Up:
Update your agenda.
Pick up your notebooks!
Table Discussion:
What is main idea and how do we find it?
Be ready to report out on what your group talked about! I will call on random people to share what their group talked about!!!

3. Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Learning Target: I can find the main idea in a given passage. Today’s Agenda: STARS– Finding Main Idea

4. Reading Pre-Assessment
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Reading Pre-Assessment
Transfer your answers to the handout provided.
Submit your responses using iRespond.

5. Resource Table of Contents STARS– Finding Main Idea
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Date
Title
Page
8/22/16
What Good Readers Do 1
8/29/16
STARS– Finding Main Idea 2
STARS– Finding Main Idea
Review the information about main idea at the top of page 8 in the STARS book.
Make sure you have everything copied from yesterday’s notes.
Resource Section Page 2
STARS– Finding Main Idea

6. Resource Table of Contents STARS– Finding Main Idea
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Date
Title
Page
8/22/16
What Good Readers Do 1
8/29/16
STARS– Finding Main Idea 2
STARS– Finding Main Idea
Read “On Her Way” on page 8 from the STARS book and answer the two questions on page 2 in your Resource section.
Label these “Page 8 Questions 3-4”
Resource Section Page 2
STARS– Finding Main Idea

7. Resource Table of Contents STARS– Finding Main Idea
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Date
Title
Page
8/22/16
What Good Readers Do 1
8/29/16
STARS– Finding Main Idea 2
STARS– Finding Main Idea
Read the information on page 9 that helps explain the correct responses.
Record the explanations next to your answers on page 2 in your Resource Section.
#3– This answer is correct because it identifies the topic and states the most important idea about it.
#4– This answer is correct because the last sentence tells about the most important idea in the whole story.
Resource Section Page 2
STARS– Finding Main Idea

8. Resource Table of Contents STARS– Finding Main Idea
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
Date
Title
Page
8/22/16
What Good Readers Do 1
8/29/16
STARS– Finding Main Idea 2
STARS– Finding Main Idea
Add the “More to Know” information from STARS page 10 to your notes on page 2 in your Resource Section.
Resource Section Page 2
STARS– Finding Main Idea