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Knowledge and Skills Statement

Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student responds to an increasingly challenging variety of sources that are read, heard, or viewed.

Task students with reading an informational text and then identifying the central or controlling idea. Students should identify the three most important ideas presented in the text. Have students share the three key ideas and explain why they think those ideas are important to the meaning of the text.
 

Further Explanation

Students must identify and understand the ideas in a text that are most important to the meaning of the text overall. Students should be able to identify the central idea and key ideas directly related to the central or controlling idea. If students identify irrelevant ideas, they may need additional practice to master this skill.

to talk or write about a topic in great detail
Students should be provided the opportunity to have a dialogue about the connections between specific ideas in the text and how they contribute to meaning. Hearing other points of view and sharing can help students confirm their own connections and inferences, consider the complexities of an idea, or determine that they have misinterpreted information and should revisit the text to establish a better understanding.
Students should be able to identify and talk about the ideas in the text that best represent its overall stated or implied meaning. If students truly understand the meaning of the text, they should be able to determine what parts of the text express ideas that would convey this meaning to someone wanting to know what the text was about.