- We're going to learn today about the main idea of a story
and how to find the supporting details. But you know how I am.
I don't want you just to find the supporting details.
I want you to be able to tell me why they're the supporting details
because a true learner cannot only state the facts,
but they can defend it just like our attorney can defend you, too.
So here we go.
Turn in your reading spiral to main idea.
I think we did a main idea table.
Main idea.
Find that main idea table or you may have drawn a main idea chair.
I left that option up to you.
A main idea table or a main idea chair.
- Take a few minutes to look over your notes
and refresh your mind about what main idea is.
Give me a thumbs up if you think you know what a main idea is.
Thumbs up if you think you know,
if you're not too sure give me one in the middle.
Okay. Hands down.
Some of my thumbs up people, what is a main idea?
What's a main idea? Adrian.
The big picture.
- It's the big picture. It's the big thing the story is about,
okay. You also saw supporting detail on your spiral.
What's a supporting detail? A supporting detail.
Supporting detail. Hmm.
Olivia, what's a supporting detail?
- It is like a chair, like it holds the main idea up.
- It holds the main idea up. I love that you said that.
That's exactly what a detail does. It supports that main idea.
It holds it up. So today we're going to read a story about frog and toad.
And your job is to do a little bit of visual thinking.
Raise your hand if you can refresh my mind
about what visual thinking means.
- What you think you should write down.
- Okay. What you think you should write down.
Who can expand on that a little bit more? I love what you're saying that.
- When you visual think, you write it down.
You don't say it out loud. You write it down.
- I love that you said that.
When I'm doing visual thinking whenever I'm thinking,
I don't say it out loud. I don't raise my hand.
I write my thoughts down. Does my thought have to be a question?
No.
- No, it doesn't have to be a question.
Then what could it be then if it's not just a question? Em?
- It could be like a statement like--
Exactly right.
- But you think up--
it's just like it doesn't have to be a question. It could be like--
- It can be just a statement.
- Comment.
- It could be a comment. It could be a statement.
Very good, Em.
It could be what pops in my head because you know
Ms. Barbee at the movie theater,
what does she do all the time?
Talk.
- Talk, talk,
talk because when you're reading or watching something,
you should be thinking the whole time.
You shouldn't just be reading the words.
You should be attaching meaning to it and thinking about it.
So today you're going to do a little bit of visual thinking.
Inside your buckets on your table, there's a sheet and it says,
"Frog and Toad."
Please grab one sheet out of the bucket.
Your job is to start doing your visual thinking when I say prowl,
but you know how I love to have fun.
- It would be to your best interest to make sure you think
and I'm able to see it, okay?
Okay. Prowl.
Okay. Are you guys ready?
- It might be an unfamiliar word to you.
You can also see why they spend more time in the water than on the land.
What made you write this down?
I have a question for you, Madison.
What is [inaudible 04:05]? Toads and frogs have a lot in?
Common.
- In common. Did you find a lot in common so far?
Yeah.
- Did you find anything different about them so far?
Dana, I love that you started the very first sentence
asking yourself the question so that when you've been thinking
about that question the whole time.
How do they have more in common than they have different?
- Now, let me ask you this.
Do you think you know what the main idea is so far?
What do you think it is?
- Frogs and toads actually have more in common
than they have in differences.
- Have you found any details that support that yet?
Do you have in the story anything
that supports how they have things in common
or support how they have things that are not in common?
I truly enjoyed what I saw.
I could tell exactly what you guys were thinking.
So when I came around, I didn't have to ask you.
"Hey, Jared,
what are you thinking about this?"
I was able to see his thoughts on his paper.
- A lot of you have already figured out
what the main idea is which is pretty impressive.
But right now if you have not gotten to that point
of your thinking process,
I want you to take just a moment. And at the bottom of your paper,
I want you to write down what you think
the main idea is at the bottom of your paper.
This is just private time for you.
What do you think the main idea of "Frog and Toad" is?
- I love how Cage is writing in complete sentences.
He told me the main idea is.
Or am I going a little bit deeper in my discussion about frogs and toads?
Think about that when you write it down.
- This story tells you what frogs have in common
and what frogs and toads have in common
and what they don't have in common and how they're different then.
- Excellent.
Look back in the text and show an exact detail
that tells you exactly what they have different?
Pick out one detail that tells me about a difference.
- It says frogs and toads actually have more in common
than they have in difference.
- You found some things they have in common? Very good.
Very good.
I found some excellent main ideas as I was going around.
I think we pretty much all had the same thought in mind.
Let's talk about it real quick.
- Now, when I want to organize my thoughts,
what's a good way to organize my thoughts? I'm talking about main idea.
Isabella.
- A main idea web.
- A main idea web. Excellent idea,
Isabella let me draw one of those.
So we're going to label it Frog and Toad.
And we know in the middle of our web, we always put the? Think about it.
Think about it. Tell me.
The main idea.
- Excellent. You put the main idea in the center.
How about a volunteer to tell me what the main idea of my story is?
The main idea of my story.
Hmm. Diego,
do you want to tell me?
- They belong to the same family.
- Okay. So frog and toad have things in common.
What else? That's not the whole main idea.
That's the not the big picture. It's a little big piece of the picture.
What else?
- The main idea is how frogs and toads are different and alike.
- Excellent. Main idea is about how frog and toad
have things in common and their differences.
Now, we're going to delve back into our text one more time.
We're going to look for supporting details.
I want two supporting details about how they're alike
and two supporting details about how they are different. Okay.
I'm going to give you two minutes of group time to talk about it.
You may prowl to your groups.
Remember, head to head.
Head to head.
- No, it doesn't say that.
It says slimy toad really doesn't make...
It also says their eggs are in batches.
I know that.
- It also says their eggs are in batches
and toads lay their eggs in long strings.
Yeah, that's a difference.
That's a good difference.
- Oh, that's a great one.
Write that one down.
That's an excellent one.
Is that something they have in common
or something that's different.
In common.
- In common. Go ahead and write that one down.
That was an excellent fact so far.
Make sure we delve back in our text and find it.
When you do your text evidence,
make sure you tell me which paragraph you found the evidence in.
In paragraph two.
- So you guys have already found a few details.
Give me a detail that you found so far.
- A frog is smooth and a toad is bumpy.
- Okay. Let's stop right there.
A frog is smooth and a toad is bumpy. Those are the differences.
You think may we just state that some differences
we found were--yes. Exactly right.
Do me a favor.
When you're going back in your text and you find your evidence,
make sure you tell me which paragraph you found that evidence in.
So write paragraph 1 or paragraph 2 or P1,
P2.
- We have to do the details first.
- Go ahead and write that down. Exactly right,
Charlie. It's what they have in common and what's different about them.
Go ahead and write that down in your diagram.
Have you thought of a third one yet? Okay.
So looking at Madison's paper,
I see the main idea is that they have more in common
than they have different.
So this is what I notice and you can tell me what you think.
- You said that frogs and toads both hop away from their home.
So those are things they have in what?
In common.
- In common.
Then you have that toads tend to have bumpy dry skin
and have frogs have smooth skin.
So something they have that's what?
Different.
- Different.
So our main idea is that there are things in common and difference.
Have we held up our main ideas or our table falling over right now?
- We've held it up.
- We've held it up. So we're pretty good so far.
Okay.
You just finished having your group discussion about
things they have in common and things that are different.
And you looked in your paragraph to find the supporting details.
So this is what's going to happen.
- I'm going to go to each table and I'm going to surprise you
and ask you if you're going to give me something they have in common
or something that's going to be different.
I do ask you tell me where you found that
particular detail in paragraph 1,
paragraph 2, paragraph 3 or 4,
so on because you need to have text evidence.
You have to prove to me that you found it there.
Okay. Let's start with group number 4.
Give me something they have in common, something they have in common,
group number 4. Jared.
- They're both in the same family.
- Oh, they are both amphibians.
Excellent, Jared.
Jared, where did you find that in your text?
- The first paragraph.
- First paragraph said they're both amphibians
and I'm going to put paragraph 1 on that. Table 2,
tell me something that is different. Different.
Wilhelm.
- Frog's skin is slimy and Toad's skin is warty.
- Excellent. Excellent.
Frog skin is slimy. Toad skin is warty.
What paragraph did you find that in, Wilhelm?
Paragraph 3.
- Paragraph 3, he says.
Excellent, Wilhelm.
Okay. Group number 1,
group number 1, tell me something in common,
group number 1, something they have in common.
Landon.
- Frogs and toads both hop away from their water homes.
- Very good. They hop away from their homes.
What paragraph did you find that in, Landon?
Paragraph 2.
No, 1.
Sorry.
- It's 1. I can make into 1.
No worries. No worries.
Last but not least, group 3,
group 3.
I need a difference, group 3.
Tell me a difference between it, a frog and a toad,
according to the text. Emma.
- Dogs can eat frogs, but they can't eat toads.
- Hmm. A vocabulary word we learned not too long ago
is when you can eat something,
it can be eaten. What's another word for you can eat it.
Remember, Jared?
Edible.
- Edible. Exactly right.
So frogs are edible. Excellent.
So we just finished our graphic organizer.
We did an awesome job on it too,
might I add. I love that I saw everyone thinking.
You're working head to head.
You were thinking and listening to each other.
You weren't just going along what someone else was saying.
You were debating.
Very good job.