Determining importance

Moving along with our Reading Comprehension Work (shout out to Tammy McGregor's incredible book). We have been focused on Determining Importance within the text through this semester. We have had a great time using non-reading activities to help us develop an understanding of this strategy before, and along with, applying it in our reading. To introduce the subject I use the creative activity of having the kids look through my purse and determine the items that would be important if I were…

Determining importance anchor chart

This chart supports a classroom of children who, when asked, “What is this book teaching?” give the most basic and undeveloped of answers. You may teach, and subsequently chart, that th…

I took a little bit from a lot of different charts about DETERMINING IMPORTANCE and came up with this... Special thanks to Eden Case for all her support!

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Today we continued discussing determining importance. My lesson idea originally came from bloggy friend Amanda Nickerson who told me she got the idea from Comprehension Connections by Tanny McGregor. Amazing women with amazing ideas! Anyway, I borrowed a purse from one of the dress-up areas from our kindergarten room and stuffed it with 6 items from my own purse (because let's be honest, there about a million things in my REAL purse). My context: I was going to the gym after work. In our…

Rockin' Readrs Decide What is Important

Determining importance is, in my experience as a teacher and tutor, more difficult for readers to learn. Strategies such as predicting or making mental images seem to come a little easier. I believe this is because determining importance in text is quite a bit more complicated than other strategies. First off, it seems to require more ... Read More about Determining Importance with Fiction

Determining importance is a critical skill that students must understand before they analyze any element of text, specifically main idea or central idea.

Determining Importance - Anchor Chart - Think Aloud - The Old Woman Who Named Things by Cynthia Rylant