Central Idea Lesson: Details That Convey It, Grades 6-8 Reading

"Two friends say a new game is great. Whose reason convinces you more?" Students feel the answer at once: "The box art looks cool" is true but proves nothing, while "Every level adds a new puzzle, so it never gets boring" does. This lesson turns that instinct into a skill: telling the details that carry a central idea from the details that are only interesting, and citing the strong ones.

What's inside

• 15 slides, with speaker notes on all 15
• Lesson plan, 2 pages
• Reading passage, 1 page
• Student worksheet, 2 pages
• Answer key, 1 page
• All printables in one ready-to-print PDF, 6 pages

Answer key included

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