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Central Message: Keep a few sticky notes blank when you laminate the anchor chart. You can then add more messages with your students after you read a book.

Common Core requires third graders to begin to find the central message of their fictional texts. This means the theme or message will be written in a short sentence. Instead of “Friendship” students will have to choose a phrase like...

I've had a hard time finding a central message anchor chart that works for my first graders. So I put a few ideas I found together!

Teaching central message is so important, especially in 3rd grade! Here are 5 tips that will help your students become proficient in locating the lesson, moral, or central message of a story. This post also contains teaching tips and resource suggestions!

Looking for some excellent mentor texts to help teach your second and third grade students about the central message? Since the central message is implied, it can be tricky for many students. It requires students to make inferences to find the lesson, author's message, theme, or moral of the story. This blog post is full of ten picture books that will help teachers bring the central message concept to life! Click the pin to find some great picture books for this reading concept!

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As I was looking for a way to teach the concept of the central message of a story, I stumbled upon some of my favorite books… Frog and Toad! I realized I had just found the perfect fiction books to help my students understand the concept. The children LOVE the characters of Frog and Toad. The students practically roll around on the carpet with laughter as I read them. After the reading, I had students think about the central message of the chapter read. I was amazed at the deep thinking of…

Summarizing is one of the hardest strategies to teach and for students to learn. Many students will retell the text ... almost word for word when asked to give a summary. In order for students to learn the difference between a retelling and a summary, teachers must model, model, model summarizing often. According to Dr. Jan Richardson, when we ask our students to summarize they ... write too much or not enough do not capture the most important ideas copy word for word from the text do not…

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I created this product so that my students can practice identifying the central message within a text. I wanted my whole class to have an opportunity to practice this standard so there are two versions of each short story. Level one for struggling readers and level two for

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Learn how to help your 1st grade students identify the central message or lesson of a story through lots of modeling in the classroom. One way is through author studies. As you read the books with your first graders, talk about what message the author is sharing & what lesson they want you to learn. Then you can list a lesson or central message for each book on a poster. Determining the Central Message (RL 1.2) Plus a FREE download! (freebie)

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This is a list of 10 great books to teach perseverance to kids in grades kindergarten, first, second, and third grade. The texts, can be used to study character traits, lessons in stories, character's motivations, central message, theme, and more! #books #mentortexts #perseverance

Helping kiddos identify the central message or lesson of a story is a tricky skill, Here's how we practice through LOTS of modeling in the classroom! To get started with Central Message, we do an author study with Kevin Henkes books. His books are so great for the beginning of the year with the messages they deliver about friendship and being kind and following rules! They lend themselves perfectly to this unit. As we read each book, we talk about what message the author was sharing with us…