Determining importance

Determining importance is, in my experience as a teacher and tutor, more difficult for readers to learn. Strategies such as predicting or making mental images seem to come a little easier. I believe this is because determining importance in text is quite a bit more complicated than other strategies. First off, it seems to require more ... Read More about Determining Importance with Fiction

Determining importance anchor chart

Determining importance is a critical skill that students must understand before they analyze any element of text, specifically main idea or central idea.

Howdy! Jen Bradshaw here from TeacherKarma.com Teaching students how to determine importance while reading can be daunting! But, it doesn't have to be. Get a simple set of mini-lessons that range from the most simple to the complex. You can use these lessons to ensure your students will have a deep understanding of determining importance. Once your students are able to determine what information is most important, you will see comprehension skills IMPROVE IN ALL AREAS! To get your free…

This chart supports a classroom of children who, when asked, “What is this book teaching?” give the most basic and undeveloped of answers. You may teach, and subsequently chart, that th…

Welcome to Mentor Monday everyone! This week's topic focuses on the reading comprehension strategy, determining importance. This strategy really hits home for me this week. When I think about determining what's important, it's kind of

I took a little bit from a lot of different charts about DETERMINING IMPORTANCE and came up with this... Special thanks to Eden Case for all her support!

When choosing a mentor text to teaching determining importance, it's important to think about your students' interests and reading levels.

When it comes to teaching determining importance, it can be tricky! This post is packed with tips, ideas, mentor text suggestions, and activities for determining importance to help students develop strong reading comprehension skills.

I'm joining my blogging buddy, Emily @ The Reading Tutor OG, for her Mentor Monday Linky. I'm a little late to the party, but let's just pretend it's Monday. ;) The topic this week is using mentor texts for Determining Importance. Let's start off with a brief explanation of the term. Determining importance is a strategy that readers use to distinguish what information in the text is important to know versus what information is simply interesting to read. With narrative text, determining…