Transcript Determining Importance Powerpoint

DETERMINING IMPORTANCE
“How do we determine importance
when reading?”
• Identify the purpose for reading the text.
• Identify the author’s purpose for writing the
text.
• Identify the key ideas.
• Use text features to help identify important
ideas, concepts, and details
Questions good readers ask
themselves…
• What is this story or piece mostly about?
• What are some of the important ideas that
stuck out to me?
• Are there any important themes I noticed?
• What do I think is most important to
remember?
Tools readers use to help
Determine Importance
• Highlighting pens
• Post its
• Skimming or scanning text
• Headings and subheadings
• Cue words and phrases
• Illustrations and Photographs
How do you determine what is important?
Let’s play “SURVIVOR”-TITAN EDITION!
You are on a plane about to be dropped off in an unknown part of
South America for 2 weeks. The pilot tells you that you can only
take 10 items with you in order to survive. Everything must fit in a
duffle bag. What would you take, and why? Good Luck!!!
These are the items you can choose from:
-Tent
-Map of S. America
-An axe
-Pillow
-Sleeping Bag
- Matches
-Backpack
-Pot for Cooking
-Compass Rose -Food (1 week’s worth)
-Cell Phone
-Lighter
-Mirror
-Pencil
-Journal
-Bottled Water (7 bottles)
-Extra set of clothes