Comprehension Mini-Lessons: Main Idea and Summarizing

Scholastic's Comprehension Mini-Lessons: Main Idea and Summarizing
Written by: LeAnn Nickelsen with Sarah Glasscock


Includes mini-lessons, activities, do now activities, graphic organizers, assessment ideas and test-prep activities.


Main idea lessons focusing on identifying the main idea (big picture), identifying supporting details, determining imortance, main idea equation, writing with a main idea, and test taking strategies. The final project for main idea is to create an informational booklet about a student-selected topic.


Mini-lessons on summarizing include hand summaries (5WH), using titles to create summaries, BME summaries, PROVE strategy for summary writing, and test taking strategies. The final project involves using a variety of graphic organizers to write a summary of a book.


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Nickelsen, Leann, and Sarah Glasscock. Comprehension Mini-lessons. New York: Scholastic Teaching Resources, 2004.