PPT-A strategy designed to develop comprehension through main idea identification.

Paragraph Shrinking Summarize what you read improve your comprehension understanding The Big Idea Decide what is important Ignore unimportant details Shrink information. Grace Oakley. What are Reading Comprehension Cognitive Strategies?. Visualising. Making connections. Fix-up strategies. Summarising. Asking questions. Making predictions. Inferring. Visualising. Making connections. Paragraph Shrink. (Summarization). This Powerpoint was created for. The Center on Teaching and Learning. College of Education. University of Oregon. by Elizabeth Jankowski . Objectives:. Explain, model and practice the student comprehension strategy of Paragraph Shrinking. . Main Idea. The most important point that the author is trying to make about the topic. Stated Main Idea. The one sentence in the paragraph that states both the topic and the most important point.. Implied Main Idea. RDG 091 Week 12 . Tracy Washington. Today’s Objectives. 1. . Review. . where we find . main ideas in a paragraph. .. 2. . Identify the . Vocabulary word: . imply. 3. . Identify the . Academic vocabulary . and . Supporting Details. The . main idea . is the most important idea of a paragraph, story, article, essay, etc.. It is the . main point . the author wishes to make.. Remember: . When you . summarize. Sammy the SUPER Summarizer. , who gives SUPER high-fives has been helping us with parts of the “Five-Finger Retell” to retell the stories we read. . You can find this comprehension strategy on the blue comprehension bookmark sent home at open house night in the . LA.910.1.7.3: The student will determine the main idea or essential message in grade-level or higher texts through inferring, paraphrasing, summarizing, and identifying relevant details. Lesson 2: Guided Practice. 2 The main idea of this paper is to automatically identify the harmonic seriand sidebands taking the uncertainty in frequencestimationinto account and without introducing any a priorion the signal. th BY ESPERANZA VERA R. . FULL TIME PROFESSOR . UNIVERSIDAD PEDAGOGICA NACIONAL. Listening for the general idea of a text. (. listening for gist.  . ). Direct. . meaning. . comprehension. What. . is. 8. th. Grade. Main Idea – why?. The best way to think about Main Idea is to think of it as the reason why a paragraph exists.. The main idea is the central idea or most important idea presented by the paragraph.. - 7 lab Unit 3 - . What is central/main idea?. After you read a book or see a movie, do you ever tell someone else what it is about? When you do this, you state the main idea. The main idea is what something is mostly about.. UNRAAVEL-A Strategy for Comprehension U - Underline the Title. N - Now predict the passage. R - Read the questions. A - Are you reading carefully ? A - Are you using reading strategies? (connecting-questioning-visualizing-inferring-summarizing-synthesizing) The Universe Review astronomers as – tron ’ – o – mers (n.) Kid-friendly definition – an expert in the science of the universe Sentence stem – Galileo was one of the world’s Get the Gist strategy (slides 2 – 11). Gist to Summary (slides 12 – 17. ) . Teachers. : Feel free to add, edit, or rearrange these slides! They are offered as a ”starting point” for your instruction..