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Lesson Plan
Teacher: Karson Date: 2/1/17 District: EMS-ISD School: Parkview
McElroy Elementary
Subject area: Reading Grade Level: 2 nd Unit Title Main Idea Lesson Title: Main Idea
Stations
Purpose and Lesson
Standard(s): Understanding goals(s): Essential Question(s):
TEKS: 2.14 Students analyze, make inferences, Students will be able to What is main idea?
and draw conclusions about and How do we identify the main idea?
understand expository text and provide
Identify the main idea in a text What is the difference between a
evidence from text to support their
understanding topic and a main idea?
(A) Identify the main idea in a text and
distinguish it from the topic
Student Objectives: Assessment of Objectives: Lesson Steps/Activities including Timeline & Grouping
Given a non- Formative assessments Introductory activities 15 mins, whole class
fiction text, throughout the lesson in the The students will come to the carpet for a mini-lesson. I will get out On the same
students will be form of monitoring and day in March, which we read on Monday and ask the students what the Main Idea
able to identify checking work. is. Pause for answers. Explain to students that the Topic is Weather, but the main
the main idea Summative assessment at idea is more than that. Tell students that to learn the main idea, we have to find
and 3 details of a the end of the lesson using details in the book that tell us what the author wants us to know from the text.
text with 80% The Storm worksheet to Show the students the Main Idea anchor chart. Use a sticky note to write Weather
accuracy evaluate if students can find and place it on the Topic cloud. Then, have students pair up and think of a detail
the main idea. from the book. Give each pair a sticky note to write their detail and place the detail
sticky notes on the Detail rain drops. Then, as a class, come up with the main idea
to write on a sticky note and place on the Main Idea umbrella. (Ex. Weather is
different in places all over the world.) Explain and model each station that the
students will be doing. Send students to their tables to begin stations.


Developmental activities 60 mins, whole class

The students will start at the one of the four tables and do the stations there. They

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will have 15 mins at each of the station which are:

1. Mystery bags: Students will open each of the 3 mystery bags and write down
what they think the topic, main idea, and details of each of the bag is.
o Mystery Bag #1: Measuring cup, Cake mix, Sprinkles
o Mystery Bag #2: Thermometer, Cough drops bag, Medicine Box
o Mystery Bag #3: Popcorn, Movie, Candy Box
2. Main Idea Puzzle: Students will read the article at the table and fill out one
detail on each of the four puzzle pieces and then write the main idea of the
thunderstorm article
3. Main Idea Wheel: Students will come up with their own main idea and write
it in the center circle, then they will draw pictures around the wheel to help
someone guess their main idea.
4. Main Idea Foldable: Students will glue down the foldable into their reading
journals and write the parts of the water cycle under each flap and write the
main idea under the top flap.

Closing Activities 15 mins, individual
Students will read The Storm, select the main idea and then write details in the
designated place.
Language Modifications Special Needs Modifications Materials & Resources: Technology:
None Strategic Grouping On This Day in March, anchor chart, None
sticky notes, Thunderstorm article, 3
paper bags, measuring cup, cake mix,
sprinkles, thermometer, cough drops bag,
medicine box, popcorn, movie, candy
box, Mystery bag worksheet, Main Idea
puzzle worksheet, Thunderstorm article,
highlighters, Main idea wheel worksheet,
crayons, pencils, Foldable worksheet,
reading journals, scissors, glue, The

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Storm assessment

Reflection
What worked: Improvements: Overall Implications for your teaching:
The stations seemed to work really well and it I think that the next time I teach this lesson, I Overall, I think this lesson went really well
helped the students stay engaged and will use the foldable as a review for the 2nd and I think that the students were beginning
understand it better to have a variety of ways day and do it all together. I will just come up to understand a difficult comprehension skill.
to practice the main idea. The Mystery bag with a different station they can do instead. I They definitely were able to meet the goal of
and Circle map stations seemed to be the think that they just didnt understand what to distinguish between main idea and topic,
best and most exciting to the kids. I think that put under each flap very well. I also know but struggled to write their own main idea
my anchor chart with the cloud, umbrella, that in the future I need to let the students and pull out specific details. I think that if I
and rain drops was really effective and helped explain their answers to me rather than me were to review this topic again and give them
the kids grasp the concept of main idea and trying to fill in the blanks. Another thing that I more practice on those areas, they would
the difference between main idea and topic. I think I could do better in is praising the perform better on the assessment. When
especially liked this idea because it tied in students. I rarely said more than Good job reviewing, I want to make sure that the
with the weather unit we are doing in science while checking their work and I should give students are focused and listening and will
right now. When I concluded the lesson after them more concrete reasons for what they plan to use classroom management strategies
the first day, just 2 stations, the students are doing well so they have good feedback then to be more strict so I can ensure their
clearly understood why we need to know the that they can build on. Finally, I want to success.
main idea and the purpose of the lesson. improve on my classroom management
strategies. I want to hold my students to a
high standard of behavior and find ways to
make them focus and listen rather than
repeatedly saying Listen up or Get to
Work.

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