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📖 6th Grade · ELARI.6.2Unit 4: Informational reading: central idea & structure

Central idea

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🎯 Objective: Students determine a central idea and supporting details.

Lesson outline

  1. Model.
  2. Practice.
  3. Share.
  4. Exit: central idea.

Lesson 1 of 4 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

RI.6.2

Common Core State Standards for ELA, Grade 6 — typical US scope & sequence

🏁 Unit goals

  • Determine a central idea and how it is conveyed
  • Analyze how a sentence, paragraph or section fits the whole

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

🎯 Practice: Central idea🦫 Encyclopedia: Science📚 All 6th Grade skills📚 Read-aloud stories⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Informational reading: central idea & structure”

  1. Central idea
  2. Text structure
  3. Author’s purpose and point of view
  4. Evaluating arguments

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