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Subject Area: English Language Arts (B.E.S.T.) | Grade Level: 3
Lesson Length: 15 minutes or less
Keywords/Tags: Main Idea, Key Details
Lesson Description: In this lesson, students will practice using the skill of finding the main idea and key details of a text.

  • ELA.3.R.2.2 Identify the central idea and explain how relevant details support that idea in a text.
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Video : Main Idea
Instructions: Please watch the following video as many times as needed before starting to go through other lesson pages. Understanding the content of the video is very important since the lesson activities will be all about this video content.
Description: Flocabulary Main Idea Video
Reading : What is a Community?
Instructions: Please read the following article as many times as needed (aloud and silent) before starting to go through the rest of the lesson pages. Understanding the content of this passage is very important since the following lesson activities will be all about this content. Feel free to print the article if needed.

What is a Community?

by Clayton James


Think about the people you saw on your way to school today. Maybe you saw a bus driver, a police officer, or a mail carrier. You probably saw business people on their way to work. Once you got to school, you saw teachers, other students, parents, and the principal. All of these people make a community. A community is a group of people who live and work in the same area. 


People play different parts to make a community. For example, bus drivers help people get to school or work. Police officers make sure people follow the laws and stay safe. Business people make or sell the things we buy. Parents and teachers make sure children have what they need to lea and be safe. Students lea so they can become good parents and workers. 


You are a part of your community, too. You can do things to make a difference. You can help keep your neighborhood clean. You can follow rules and laws. You can help others who are in need. 


Communities work best when people do their jobs and help each other. You and everyone around you work together to make a community

Forum : Main Idea
Instructions: This discussion forum will have questions for students to respond. Read the posted questions, and respond to each. Students are responsible for posting one initial and and two peer responses for each topic.
What is the main idea of the text "What is a Community?"

Description: What is the main idea of the text "What is a Community?"
Quiz : Main Idea
Instructions: Please complete this quiz by choosing the correct answer for each question. You can take this quiz as many times needed.
Question #1
Explain how you can be a part of your community. Give 2 key details from the passage to support your answer. (You MUST include 2 key details to support your answer.