Identify, Analyze, Infer the Main Idea or Theme

CCSSR2

 

FICTION

What is the theme of the story?       Spanish

Guide K-2 Students: Story Elements and Theme

Identify and support the theme of a story

Write a Play to Communicate the Theme of a Story

I Can Infer the Moral or Message of a Fable

I Can Infer the theme of a Story

I Can Infer the theme in a Story—one page postable questions 

Guide K-2 Students: Story Elements and Theme

Identify and support the theme of a story

Construct a play based on a story to understand how the writer constructs it to communicate the theme.

 

Expand Thinking with Drama English   / Spanish

Write a Play to Communicate the Theme of a Story

 

POETRY

Draw to Show the Theme of a Story or Poem

 

 

NONFICTION

Challenge, Choice, Changes

Challenge, Choice, Changes: Tenochtitlan

I Can Infer the Main Idea When I Read (Primary)

I Can Infer the Main Idea When I Read

I Can Infer the Main Idea When I Read  -- a guided example

 

Paragraph Reader--I can identify the main idea

 

Get It Together—Show What’s Important  English   / Spanish

 

I Can Infer the Main Idea of a Passage

 

Paragraph Reader: I Can Infer the Main Idea

 

Nonfiction Main Idea Developers

 

Main Idea Analyzer

 

I can infer the main idea of a history

 

Readers use strategies to figure out the main idea of a nonfiction

 

Picture the Main Idea English / Spanish 

 

Identify, Analyze, Infer the Main Idea

 

Constructed Response Exercise-Main Idea

 

I can Infer the Main Idea 2 with related writing

 

A Way to Analyze Paragraphs to Figure Out the Main Idea of a Nonfiction Text

Identify the Main Idea--NONFICTION

Main Idea Analyzer

Answer the Big Question with Evidence

Answer the Big Question with Citation of Evidence

Explain Ideas with Examples

Exhibit Science Ideas

I Can Infer the Main Idea of a History

Get It Together—Show What’s Important  English   / Spanish

I Can Infer the Main Idea of a Passage

I Can Infer the Main Idea of a History

Native Americans' Perceptions of Nature--Analyze, Evaluate, Construct

I can comprehend a paragraph, then a page/section in a text

Paragraph Reader: I Can Infer the Main Idea

I Can Identify and Support the Main Idea in Nonfiction—one page postable questions

Picture the Main Idea English / Spanish

Picture Planner

 

Readers use strategies to figure out the main idea of a nonfiction passage

 

 

Students need to be able to identify the central idea and the supporting ideas

--a nonfiction text includes one central idea and related main ideas.

 

Central and main Ideas

 

Artists' Ideas about Art   figure out central ideas  grades 6-12

 

Expand Thinking with Drama English   / Spanish Can apply to history or fictioin.

Write a Play to Communicate the Theme of a Story or HISTORY

 


Jahn student identifies and supports the theme of a chapter in The Phantom Tollbooth.

 


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