How do good readers determine the main idea and details when reading non-fiction?
During the month of February, Team Gibbas students read biographies. Students practiced their skills of determining the main ideas, or most important ideas in biographies by reading about a famous person depicted in the "Who is" "Who was" series of chapter books. Students then wrote first-person speeches describing the most important events in the life of the famous person that they read about. Finally, students brought these famous people to life on March 3rd at the fourth grade Wax Museum! Students did a fabulous job becoming these famous people and describing the important events of their lives.
To see some of these famous people come to life, click the arrow on the images below.
Julia Childs
Elvis
Muhammad Ali
Amelia Earhart
Steve Jobs
Pablo Picasso
Anne Frank
J.K. Rowling
Jackie Robinson
Milton Hershey
Fourth Grade Common Core Standard:
RI.2: Determine the main idea of a text and explain how it is supported by key details; summarize the text.
What do Team Gibbas students want to do more than anything else?
READ!
After earning 10 class compliments from adults at Proctor School for being a well-behaved, hard-working, and responsible group of learners, Team Gibbas voted to have a Read In on March 4th.
