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English · Grade 6

Informational Central Ideas and Structure

Learners read an original article about Louis Braille and the six-dot reading system he developed as a teenager. They determine its central idea and the details that convey it, analyze how the author introduces, illustrates and elaborates key ideas, explain what each section and sentence contributes to the structure, and write objective summaries. A new article about cool roofs checks transfer.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 95 minutes
  • Central idea and structure check: 9 questions
  • Ways to answer: choose an answer, highlight a text, match pairs, type a number, put in order and sort into groups
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What learners will discover

  • Determine a central idea of an informational text and explain how it is conveyed through particular details.
  • Write an objective summary of an informational text.
  • Analyze how a key individual, event or idea is introduced, illustrated and elaborated, for example through anecdotes, examples and explanations.
  • Analyze how a sentence, paragraph or section fits into the overall structure and contributes to the development of ideas.

Lessons

  1. The central idea and its details 6 steps3 practiceabout 25 min
  2. Introduce, illustrate, elaborate 5 steps3 practiceabout 23 min
  3. Sections and sentences in the structure 5 steps3 practiceabout 23 min
  4. Objective summary of an article 5 steps3 practiceabout 24 min
  5. Central idea and structure check 9 questions at the end

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