This presentation is designed to achieve three goals: increase student engagement, improve students' reading comprehension, and make your job easier! The lesson begins with direct instruction into the often challenging skill of identifying a main idea and the supporting details of a passage. The instruction is then applied to the reading, "Coasting to California," part of the California Treasures reading program.
If what you're looking for is how to more effectively facilitate reading instruction, then this is for you! Download the preview, see what you think.
16 years teaching in the Los Angeles Unified School District at a Title 1 school. Prior to teaching in Los Angeles, served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Uruguay.