Students tend to struggle with finding the main idea and identifying the supporting details. The lesson that I found can also be used as a formative or summative assessment. You type of paragraphs sentence by sentence and cut each sentence out. Students will have to read each sentence and determine which sentence is the main idea and which are the supporting details. One thing I liked about this lesson is that it can be differentiated easily by increasing/decreasing the text complexity. It can also be adapted to fit whatever topic is being taught in class. They also suggested having students partner up and explain their reasoning to another student after they have identified the main idea and supporting details. This is a great way of getting students to engage in academic discourse and also work on listening and reasoning skills.
