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Lesson Title: Finding the Main Idea When The Author Isn’t Clear  || Related Lessons: Main Idea, Supporting Details || Grade: 3 || Unit: Reading/Language Arts || GOALS ||     Creativity and innovation  Communication and collaboration  Research and information fluency ||   Critical thinking, problem-solving, & decision-making <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Digital citizenship <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Technology operations and concepts || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> ACTION<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">During class <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Time || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Instructional Activities || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Materials & Resources || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Three 45 minute sessions. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The students will read their book prior to coming to class. They will log onto our Moodle online classroom and make a forum about their topic. In this forum they will write a summary of book and try to identify the main idea or purpose of the book. The students will cite details from the book that make them feel their main idea is correct. When they finish they are to look at other student’s posts and asks questions about their book and find one person to trade books with. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">When they have communicated about their books and trade they will trade books at their next library session and repeat the process with their new book, but under the original forums posting. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">If there is a difference of opinion the two students will work together to come up a solution and definite main idea that both students feel is acceptable. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Library, Computer Lab, Moodle software. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> MONITOR || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Ongoing assessment(s): I will monitor the postings online to see if they are on task and communicating about their findings. I will note which students do not complete assignments. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Accommodations and extensions: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Students who are struggling navigating or posting can have a peer help them in the lab. If a student has completed both topics and would like to make an additional trade with another student they may or they can find a new topic on their own. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Backup plan: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">If for some reason that the computer lab is not available the students would complete their summaries or responses by writing them in their notebooks to be put onto their Moodle site at a different time. EVALUATE AND EXTEND || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Lesson reflections and notes: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">My hope for this lesson is to create a stronger interest in finding the main idea of informational text. I also want the student to seek out learning in science on their own as our district has shortened the amount of time we have in class for that instruction. Hopefully, this assignment can strengthen both skills for my third graders.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Content Standards: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Ohio Academic Content Standard **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Identify and list the important central ideas and supporting details of informational text. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">ISTE NETS-S **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">ISTE NETS-S **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Instructional objective(s): **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The student will be able to identify and communicate the main idea of a story and give supporting details for their findings. The student will select an informational topic in the area of science and post a brief summary of the book and then support a main idea using details from the story. **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Before-class preparation: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The students will be asked during their library time to select one book that is an informational science book. **