Determining importance anchor chart

Moving along with our Reading Comprehension Work (shout out to Tammy McGregor's incredible book). We have been focused on Determining Importance within the text through this semester. We have had a great time using non-reading activities to help us develop an understanding of this strategy before, and along with, applying it in our reading. To introduce the subject I use the creative activity of having the kids look through my purse and determine the items that would be important if I were…

Determining importance anchor chart

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

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!

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…

How do you improve critical thinking during reading? What strategies help your students. This post features skill suggestions for building deep thinking in the classroom.

Determining Importance - Anchor Chart - Think Aloud - The Old Woman Who Named Things by Cynthia Rylant

New anchor chart for determining importance comprehension strategy.

Help your students develop essential reading comprehension skills with these interactive read aloud lessons focused on determining importance. Our carefully designed determining importance activities and determining importance anchor chart will guide your students in analyzing information and identifying key points, improving their comprehension and overall reading success. You'll love how easy it is to implement these interactive read aloud lessons. Get yours today!