Learning to Read Non-Fiction

Recently we've learned how to find the main idea and supporting details in non-fiction texts. We took a book about penguins to help us with this skill.

We've learned that the title of the book gives us the main idea. Then we looked for things we learned while reading.

Later on, we learned that headings are like titles, and we can learn the main idea from the headings.  We discussed that in the text that follows we will learn details about the main idea.   Look how we've learned the main idea and details:

Then we shared the pen and wrote the main idea and details on our own:

Too bad I didn't capture any of those writers in action!

The great thing is that learning how to find the main idea in a non-fiction text is a life-long skill and we are on our way!

To show what we know, we then wrote informational reports on penguins with a main idea sentence.  More on that to come!