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Teaching ELA Content through these Teach-and-Task Lessons!

Thursday, February 25, 2021
Have you ever felt bogged down with keeping all of the components of your upcoming lessons organized? I know I often did! I would have piles for each lesson. The pile might include a book I was planning to reference, a few papers or posters that I was going to display using the document camera, and of course, a set of clipped worksheets that would allow for independent practice.

I created a new line of ELA resources that could help reduce the number of stacks on your desk. They are paperless and compatible with Google Slides. I have been calling them my "teach-and-task lessons" because each lesson includes instructional slides and matching activities to follow up the content that you have just taught. I have teach-and-task lessons for twelve important ELA topics. (All of the topics are listed near the end of this post.) Let me show you how they are structured by sharing images and explanations from my main idea set

Check out Deb's teach-and-task lessons. They include both instructional slides and practice slides for students. Pictured here are some slides from my main idea set, but I have lessons for twelve different ELA topics.



Main Idea Lesson #2: Teaching Slides (Slides 1-7)

Check out Deb's teach-and-task lessons. They include both instructional slides and practice slides for students. Pictured here are some slides from my main idea set, but I have lessons for twelve different ELA topics.
The first two slides are used to introduce the ice cream cone graphic organizer. 

Next, students watch as you guide them through reading a passage, identifying the main idea, and writing it in the cone section of the graphic organizer. The speech bubbles make it so that the answers are right on the slides for you, and you (as the teacher) don't have to try to come up with the main idea while you are teaching.
Check out Deb's teach-and-task lessons. They include both instructional slides and practice slides for students. Pictured here are some slides from my main idea set, but I have lessons for twelve different ELA topics.

Check out Deb's teach-and-task lessons. They include both instructional slides and practice slides for students. Pictured here are some slides from my main idea set, but I have lessons for twelve different ELA topics.
After identifying the main idea, you and your students can reread the passage, and view the important details that support the main idea sentence. When you advance to the seventh slide, they will see how the details have been added to the graphic organizer. 
Check out Deb's teach-and-task lessons. They include both instructional slides and practice slides for students. Pictured here are some slides from my main idea set, but I have lessons for twelve different ELA topics.


Main Idea Lesson #2: Task Slides (Slides 8-11)

Check out Deb's teach-and-task lessons. They include both instructional slides and practice slides for students. Pictured here are some slides from my main idea set, but I have lessons for twelve different ELA topics.
After working through the teaching slides, now it is the students' turn to practice with these two practice passages. They read the passages and fill out the graphic organizers independently. (The yellow boxes are text boxes.) If they want to refer to the teaching slides, they are readily available for easy reference.
Check out Deb's teach-and-task lessons. They include both instructional slides and practice slides for students. Pictured here are some slides from my main idea set, but I have lessons for twelve different ELA topics.

This is just one of the lessons in my main idea set. Teachers who purchase the main idea set will receive four lessons. The lessons advance from basic content to more complex. You can use these lessons over the course of four days to provide lots of targeted main idea instruction to your students.

A Complete List of Topics

As I mentioned earlier, I currently have lessons like this for twelve ELA topics! Click on the links below to view each topic.

I hope you enjoy using these teach-and-task lessons as much as I enjoyed creating them! 

Deb 


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Check out Deb's teach-and-task lessons. They include both instructional slides and practice slides for students. Pictured here are some slides from my main idea set, but I have lessons for twelve different ELA topics.


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