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Well Organized Is Well Understood!

  • Grade 8
  • French
  • Reading

Description

In this activity, students analyze how the structure of a descriptive text separates main and secondary ideas from each other. Students organize their main and secondary ideas to summarize a text. Students infer, using textual clues, how the ideas in the development are divided.

Learning goals

  • I use all the clues to formulate or infer the important idea of a paragraph.
  • I organize the main ideas I have identified with supporting secondary ideas, then summarize to show my understanding.

Vocabulary

  • main idea
  • secondary idea
  • report
  • intertitle or subtitle
  • textual clue
  • quidditch
  • bolded words