The past two weeks, my Intensive ST group (5th grade) has been working on identifying main idea and supporting details. Students were asked to read a summary of The Golden Lion Tamarin Comes Home and create a tree map demonstrating their understanding of the story’s main idea as well as three supporting details.
We had practiced completing a tree map at the beginning of the two week session as a means of familiarizing students with the concept of classifying.
The first group I worked with was given a tree map template. The second group was asked to draw the map based off the model on the board. I think having the second group draw their own map took away from the concept of main idea and supporting details, as I had to help students erase and redraw in order for the map to look like the original.
In the future, I will give my students the tree map template until they are familiar and comfortable with the structure and form.
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