eSpark Learning: Main Idea Instructional Video (3.RI.2) - By eSparkLearningVideos
00:08 | Hello , readers . It's Miss Bushman . Today we | |
00:11 | are going to work on such an important reading strategy | |
00:15 | . The reading strategy we're going to practice is called | |
00:18 | Main idea and details . Good readers find main idea | |
00:23 | has been reading main ideas . Help us remember what's | |
00:26 | important about the information we're reading about . The main | |
00:31 | idea of a paragraph tells the topic of the paragraph | |
00:34 | . It tells us what all or most of the | |
00:36 | sentences air about . The other Ascendance is in the | |
00:39 | paragraph are called Details , details , describe or explain | |
00:44 | the main idea . Let's read the paragraph on this | |
00:52 | page and work to find the main idea and supporting | |
00:55 | details . Make sure to follow along as I read | |
00:59 | . Here we go . Hundreds of years ago , | |
01:03 | Illinois was covered with prairie grass . The grass when | |
01:07 | it died and decomposed made the soil very rich for | |
01:11 | farming . This rich soil made Illinois one of the | |
01:14 | most important farming states in the country . Ever since | |
01:18 | pioneer days , corn has been the state's most important | |
01:22 | crap . Soybeans are a second . Hey , wheat | |
01:27 | , rye and oats are grown , too . When | |
01:34 | thinking about what we just read , we know that | |
01:37 | we're reading about Illinois , but we also noticed that | |
01:40 | the word farming is repeated in the paragraph . That | |
01:44 | is why the words are highlighted in red . So | |
01:48 | when thinking about farming in Illinois , we confined the | |
01:51 | main idea of this paragraph in the third sentence . | |
01:54 | Can you look for it with me ? Oh , | |
01:59 | I think I see it . It says that Illinois | |
02:02 | is one of the most important farming states in the | |
02:05 | country . I cannot take that main idea and put | |
02:13 | it in our main idea organizer . The main idea | |
02:17 | goes in the middle because that's what is most important | |
02:20 | about our reading . Now I'm going to go back | |
02:24 | to the paragraph to find details that tell more about | |
02:28 | the main idea . The other sentences give us details | |
02:35 | that support our main idea of why farming as important | |
02:38 | to Illinois . Each of these sentences in Green tells | |
02:42 | us more about Illinois and farming . Let's look at | |
02:45 | the details . Farming is important in Illinois because prairie | |
02:51 | grass made the soil rich , making it easier to | |
02:53 | grow things . It is one of the most important | |
02:57 | farming states in the country , and last but not | |
03:00 | least , that corn is a very important crop . | |
03:06 | Now that I found details to support the main idea | |
03:09 | . I can finish my main idea organizer here , | |
03:17 | I place the important details into the organizer . You | |
03:21 | can see that each of the details sentences tells me | |
03:24 | more about why farming is important to Illinois . Take | |
03:29 | a moment to read through the organizer on your own | |
03:43 | . As you can see , readers , finding main | |
03:45 | idea and details is an important reading strategy . It's | |
03:50 | important because it helps us become better readers . We | |
03:54 | can better understand what we're reading about by finding the | |
03:58 | main idea and supporting details . Now , As you | |
04:02 | read nonfiction , you can use this strategy to help | |
04:05 | you become a better leader . |
DESCRIPTION:
This video explains how to identify the main idea and to find key details in an informative text. It models these reading strategies with an example text and graphic organizer.
OVERVIEW:
ESpark Learning: Main Idea Instructional Video (3.RI.2) is a free educational video by eSparkLearningVideos.It helps students in grades 4 practice the following standards RI.4.1,RI.4.2,.
This page not only allows students and teachers view ESpark Learning: Main Idea Instructional Video (3.RI.2) but also find engaging Sample Questions, Apps, Pins, Worksheets, Books related to the following topics.
1. RI.4.1 : Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text..
2. RI.4.2 : Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text..