The Gingerbread Man Essay

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Skill Focus: Organizational structure - main idea and details

Materials: , “The Gingerbread Man” book by Rutherford, set of cards with paragraphs to find main idea and details (from Teachers Pay Teachers), a whiteboard, a marker with an eraser, an ice cream main idea and details worksheet (from Teachers Pay Teachers), an iPad, a photo about Easter downloaded on the iPad, PowerPoint with vocabulary, a clipboard, an anchor chart of main idea and details, a pencil, a piece of paper.

Objective: Maylee will be able to identify the main idea and at least 3 details of each of the several passages from the practice cards.
Maylee will be able to identify main idea and at least 3 details from the story The Gingerbread Man by Rutherford.

Assessment: …show more content…
164; Explicit Instruction: With Text, pp. 165

Steps of Plan:
1. Main idea and details of a photo:
• Show Maylee a photo on the iPad and ask her to look at the picture and tell you what it is about in few words or one sentence (Easter). Tell Maylee it is the main idea of the picture. Show the anchor chart and explain the main idea and the details.
• Ask Maylee to look at the picture again and tell you what the details in the picture are (accept any appropriate answer).
• Ask Maylee to write one sentence that tells the main idea of the picture on a given piece of paper and a pencil. Emphasize the difference between the main idea and the details.
2. Main idea and details from the paragraphs:
• Take out the set of cards with paragraphs, and a whiteboard, and a marker with an eraser. Read a paragraph with Maylee and model creating a spider map on the whiteboard with the main idea from the paragraph in the center and its supporting details going out from the center.
• Read other paragraphs with Maylee and ask her to create the spider map for each. Scaffold, if needed. Go though as many paragraphs as you think it is appropriate basing on Maylee’s understanding of the
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