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English Language Arts (NYS P-12 Common Core)

Description

In this lesson you will learn how to determine the central idea of a text by determining the topic and asking what the author says about it. This lesson focuses on the article, "The Little Owls that Live Underground" from http://www.smithsonian.com

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Determine the central idea of a nonfiction article

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Related Academic Standards

New York State

8R2 Determine one or more themes or central ideas of a text and analyze their development over the course of the text; summarize a text. (RI&RL)

RI.8.2 Determine a central idea of a text and analyze its development over the course of the text, including its relationship to supporting ideas; provide an objective summary of the text.