We hope everyone had a wonderful start to 2023! It’s time to kick this year off with some strong comprehension strategies that can help our students to improve their literacy skills.

Reading Lab #7: Comprehension

Class Syllabus – Grades 3-5

1/9/23

Objective: Students will be able to effectively summarize a complex text by identifying the main idea and its impact.

Essential Questions:

1. Why is it important to identify the main conflict and solution represented in a text?
2. What constitutes an effective summary of a text?

Enduring Understandings:

1. The main character in a text is the subject who the writer focuses on and makes them complete major actions.
2. The main conflict in a text is the problem that presents the most major obstacles for a character.
3. The solution in a text oftentimes contributes to the main takeaway or life lesson.

Standards:

Grade 3: RL.3.2. Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea RL.3.3. Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect. Grade 4: RL.4.2. Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text. RL.4.3. Explain events, procedures, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text, including what happened and why, based on specific information in the text.

Grade 5: RI.5.2. Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text. RI.5.3. Explain the relationships or interactions between two or more individuals, events, ideas, or concepts in a historical, scientific, or technical text based on specific information in the text.

Materials:

• Please download the worksheets below onto your computer. You do not need to print them.