Main Idea Versus Theme

3rd Grade Main Idea Versus Theme

This week I had the opportunity to visit our third grade classrooms and model a lesson on Main Idea versus Theme. To begin the lesson, we used an anchor chart to talk about the differences between the two. We also used a common story that many of the students were familiar with: The boy Who Cried Wolf. We talked about the lesson that the boy learned and the main idea. 

Students then used Google Classroom to Navigate to Edulastic. Edulastic was used as a teaching tool to show students some different forms of questions they will see on ILEARN: drag and drop, hot text, and passage with questions to the right. 

Passage:

Did you know you can copy and paste any Newsela or ReadWorks article into Edulastic? Then you can create questions that will show up to the right of the passage (Which looks exactly like ILEARN)!

Drag and Drop Questions:

Our students are use to these types of questions. They see these on Lexia and iReady. 

Hot Text Questions:

This is a new type of question on ILEARN. Students are able to select group of words in a text as their answer choice. Check out the assignment on Edulastic. 

Link to Edulastic Assignment