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Active Readers Determine Importance in Text

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Work Cited:

   

Elementary Shenanigans. (n.d.). Retrieved June 26, 2016, from                                                                                    http://www.elementaryshenanigans.com/2013/08/friday-freebies-unit-updates.html

     

Read * Write * Share. (n.d.). Retrieved June 26, 2016, from                                                                                          http://mccraryl.blogspot.com/2010/09/anchor-lessons-anchor-learning.html

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Main Idea Graphic Organizer. (2011). Retrieved June 26, 2016, from                                                                            http://www.classroomfreebies.com/2011/12/main-idea-graphic-organizer.html​​

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Common Core Reading Standard involving the application of comprehension strategy "Determining Importance."

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RI.5.2: Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text.

 

 

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In order to determine the importance of an event in a text, young readers must understand what they already know about the events that are taking place. If readers are learning something new from the text then they should highlight the event as important. The young readers must use their prior knowledge to make sure that the information they are reading is important to them. The importance of information may be different for everyone based on their prior knowledge.

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