Central Idea Lesson: Two Central Ideas in One Text, Grades 6-8

"A video about a skate park shows the tricks and how the park was built. What is it about?" Sometimes one sentence cannot cover a whole text, because the writer is building two points. This lesson teaches students to notice when that happens, track each idea with its own evidence, and explain how the two connect.

What's inside

• 14 slides, with speaker notes on all 14
• Lesson plan, 2 pages
• Reading passage, 2 pages, paragraphs numbered
• Student worksheet, 2 pages
• Answer key, 1 page
• All printables in one ready-to-print PDF, 7 pages

Answer key included

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