Monday: Main Topic

Subject: Literacy Central Focus: Students will understand how identifying the main topic
and key details helps readers comprehend a text.

Essential Standard/Common Core Objective: Date submitted: Date taught:

RI.K.2 requires that children identify the main topic and
retell key details of a text with prompting and support.
Daily Lesson Objective: Students will learn how to identify the main topic of a book, as well as how to retell key
details of the text.

21​st​ Century Skills: Academic Language Demand(s)

● Informational Literacy ● Language Function: Identify
● Critical Thinking ● Content/Academic Vocab: main topic, key details, retell, shadow,
● Discourse:Graphic Organizer
● Syntax:
Prior Knowledge:​ Students have practiced identifying key details and have read other informational texts.

Activity Description of Activities and Setting Time

“Today we are going to start by working together to make a list of 5
things that go together.” Teacher will show students the chart paper mins
with the words​ swings and slide.​ “What other words might fit in
this group?” Students will help teacher to complete the list. “Now
1. Focus and Review
that we have made our list, we need to give it a title. Where can we
find all of these things? What could we call this group?” Title the
list: Things at the Playground. “The title helps us understand the
main topic or what the list is mostly about.”
“Today we are learning how to tell what an informational book is 30
2. Statement of Objective
for Student
all about. We will also work on how to retell important secs
information.”
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“I am going to read an informational paragraph which is kind of mins
like our tinie tiny stories but this is true. I would like for you to
listen and think about what this informational paragraph is all
about. Model for students how to identify the main topic”

Our shadows do what we do. Jump up and your shadow jumps

3. Teacher Input
up. Clap and your shadow claps. Wave an arm, and your
shadow’s arm waves, too.

● What is this paragraph all about, What is the main topic?

● How do you know that the paragraph is about shadows
● What did you learn about shadows from this paragraph?
 “All of the things that you learned are key details because they are
important ideas that tell us more about the main topic.”

Teacher will pull up the main topic circle maps under the document
camera and ask class to help create a title or the main topic of each
4. Guided Practice circle map. Have students name the items in the map and then come
up with the title.

Students will be broken into groups with mystery bags to determine

the main topic of their mystery bag. Each bag will have pictures of
a topic and students will need to work together to figure out what
they could title their mystery bag. Once you have given 5 minutes
for students to think of an idea you will bring the class back
together to look at the contents in each bag and create titles.
Teacher will write the title the students come up with in the graphic
organizer.
5. Independent Practice
“I would like for you to take the pictures out of your mystery bag
and spread them out on your table. I am giving you 5 minutes to
talk with your partner about what you could title the bag. When the
5 minutes is up you will need to bring me the mystery bags and
come up and share with the class the title you gave your bag.”

6. Assessment Methods
of all objectives/skills:

Teacher will group students to work together on identifying the

main topic of each mystery bag.

Groups:
7. Closure 1. Andrew and Austin
2. Jarez and Ja’Zelle
3. Phillip, David, and Taheem
4. Christopher, Kylie, and Damian
5. Zoey and Alleigh
6. Sammy, Ivy, and Remas

8. Assessment Results of
all objectives/skills:

Targeted Students Modifications/Accommodations Student/Small Group

Modifications/Accommodations
Student C will sit near teacher on the carpet in order to Struggling Readers:
manage behavior with proximity. Will receive additional support through a read
Student A and student I will be called on frequently aloud during the lesson and additional prompting
during the lesson in order to keep them engaged and through questioning during the lesson.
participating. Student O will sit near the front of the room
in order to help students comprehension and English
language acquisition.

Materials/Technology: Chart Paper/ Markers, Circle Maps, numbered mystery bags, laminated pictures for mystery
bags, graphic organizer for titles/pencil
Reflection on lesson:

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