They read a single-page article on safety officers to build background knowledge. The teacher guides students to derive the meaning of audience and attention from context clues. After two lessons of reading the main text, students read a related nonfiction narrative about a famous dog. Such related reading takes advantage of active concepts to further extend reading practice, a valuable fluency teaching strategy. A lesson on summarization.
Students receive a jot chart to collect main ideas with their supporting details on specified pages.
The topic is defined as the one major thing the selection is about, e.g., wildfires. The main idea comments on this topic, e.g., wildfires are frightening. Supporting details are defined as any facts, examples, and information that further explains or supports the main idea. The teacher guides students' work in completing the jot charts. The manual does a nice job of unpacking some of the concepts handled a bit too glibly in the other texts.