Capacity Building of Key Stage 1

Teachers on Learning Recovery in

Literacy and Numeracy via
School-based Learning Action Cell
 Module 1
Session No. 1
BUILDING SKILLS IN READING
(Getting the Main Idea and Noting
Details)
 Introduction

Welcome to our SLAC session

on Learning Recovery in
Literacy, focusing on reading
comprehension.
 Professional Standards Covered

Proficient Teachers
1.5.2 Apply a range of teaching strategies to develop critical
and creative thinking, as well as other higher-order thinking
skills

Highly Proficient Teachers

1.5.3 Develop and apply effective teaching strategies to
promote critical and creative thinking, as well as other
higher-order thinking skills
 Terminal Objective
Proficient Teachers
develop a lesson plan that would reflect the different
teaching-learning activities activities that can be
used to enhance learners’ skill in getting main idea
and noting details from an expository text read /
listened to

Highly Proficient
Teachers
model a range of teaching-learning activities
that can be used to enhance learners’ skill in
getting main idea and noting details from an
expository text read / listened to
 Enabling Objectives

identify different teaching-learning

activities that will develop learners’ skill in
noting details and getting the main idea;

apply a range of teaching-learning activities

that can be used to enhance learners’ skill
in getting main idea and noting details from
an expository text read / listened to;
 Enabling Objectives

simulate how the different teaching-

learning activities will be done in the
classroom; and

share reflections on how using these

teaching-learning activities will contribute
in developing the learners’ literacy skills
 Leading Activity

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 Leading Activity

Teacher Lucy, a Grade 3 teacher, is teaching how to get

the main idea. First, she asked the learners to read a
one-paragraph text silently. After reading, she started
asking questions about it. She noticed that fewer and
fewer hands were raised as her questions progressed
from literal, to inferential, to critical. When she finally
asked, “What do
you think the text is all about?”, her pupils either gave
the first sentence or the title of the text.
 Leading Activity

When discussing what a main idea is, she

simply told the learners that they need to
read the text carefully and find what the
text is mostly talking about. Then, she
asked them to read more sample texts and
identify the main idea for practice. At the
end of the class, the index of mastery
showed that only 25% of the learners
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 Leading Activity

Triad 1: What difficulty is experienced

by the teacher in teaching this
competency? Do you have a similar
experience? Please share.

Triad 2: What do you think is the

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which resulted in the low index of

mastery?
 Leading Activity

Triad 3 : What can be improved in the

teaching strategy used by Teacher Lucy
so that the lesson will be better
understood by the learners?

Triad 4: What do you think is your role

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as literacy teacher in guiding the
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learners achieve mastery of this skill?
 Self-Reflection

• As a Literacy Teacher, I
Knowledge know…

• As a Literacy Teacher, I
Skills do …

• As a Literacy Teacher, I
Attitude feel…
 Key Concepts/Contents

EXPOSITORY TEXT is a form of text that

gives facts or information about a topic in an
organized way. The purpose of the author is to
inform, explain, describe, or define his or
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her subject to the reader. It provides facts in a
way that is educational and purposeful.
 Key Concepts/Contents

Expository Texts typically follow one of the

five formats:
1. descriptive tells what a person or thing is
like by describing its characteristics
2. sequence lists a series of events
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according to what happened or steps in a
process like a recipe
 Key Concepts/Contents

Expository Texts typically follow one of the

five formats:
3. cause and effect tells the reasons that
make other things happens (cause) and
describes \what happened or the results
(effect)
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4. compare and contrast looks for

similarities of (compare) or differences
(contrast). They used words like both, also,
the same, or however, but, yet.
 Key Concepts/Contents

Expository Texts typically follow one of the

five formats:

5. problem and solution identifies the

problem/s and gives possible solution/s
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to it.
 Key Concepts/Contents

NOTING DETAILS is finding bits of ideas

or information about a text read or
listened to. It is a skill that enables
learners to accurately answer wh-
questions.
WH-Questions include Who, What, When,
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Where, and Why, and sometimes How.
 Key Concepts/Contents

MAIN IDEA is the central thought of a

paragraph or larger section of text, which
tells what the whole text talks about. It is
the most important thing the paragraph
says about the topic.
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 Key Concepts/Contents

To be able to tell what the main idea of

a paragraph is, you will have to figure
out first the topic. The topic is what the
paragraph is all about. Then, look for the
key sentence or the topic sentence, the
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idea about the topic.
 Suggested Teaching-Learning Activities

Noting Details and Getting Main Idea from

Expository Texts Listened to

1. Listening Activity

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 Suggested Teaching-Learning Activities

Noting Details and Getting Main

Idea from Texts Read

1. Noting Details using the Cornell Two-

Column Notes
2. Note Taking using Graphic Organizer
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Noting Details using the Cornell Two-
Column Notes
 Get a piece of paper and divide it into
three parts.
 Write the general / main idea or topic
on the right column.
 Opposite the idea, on the left column,
write the details that support it.
 At the bottom, write a short summary
of the whole text.
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Noting Details using the Cornell Two-
Column Notes
TEXT
Materials in the world around us comes
in three different forms.
Solid is hard. It has shape and volume.
Examples are wood, coins , as well as
cars and books.

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Noting Details using the Cornell Two-
Column Notes
Liquids flow. It does not have a definite
shape. It follows the shape of its container.
It also has volume. Oil and water are
examples of liquid.
Gases like air surround us. It has no definite
shape and no definite volume too. An
example of a gas is helium that we use to
inflate the balloon.
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Noting Details
using the Cornell
Two-Column Notes

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 Suggested Teaching-Learning Activities

Main Idea & Supporting Details

1. Mystery Bag/Box
2. Main Idea Picture Analysis

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 Suggested Assessment Strategies

Four Show-Me
Corners Board

Graphic
Restating
Organizer Information
s

Writing
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(Essay)
 Writing an Essay

Writing an essay is a focused piece of

writing that develops an idea or argument
using evidence, analysis and
interpretation. Learners will write a
paragraph containing important details
about the topic and its main idea. Essays
respond to a writing prompt or writing
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topic.
 Other Suggested Teaching –
Learning Activities

Color-
Complete
Worksheets coded
the Lyrics
Reading

Working
Does it
Backwards
Belong? (Details to Main
Idea)

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 Worksheets

Worksheets are learning resources

that may be used to reinforce skills
that require practice for mastery.
These are common pen-and-paper
activities that provide enrichment
exercises to help learners attain
mastery of the target skill.

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TASK: Dyads

READ DISCUSS SIMULATE

Read carefully Talk among After the given
the description yourselves the time, you will
and procedure best way to simulate the
for each of the deliver the activity as if you
activity that will activity inside are a classroom
be assigned to the classroom teacher.
you. for the next 5 to
10 minutes.
 Dyads - Assignment
Dyad
Dyad 1 Listening Activity
Complete the Lyrics

Dyad 2 Four Corners

Show-Me Board
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Dyad 3 Using Graphic Organizers

 Dyads - Assignment

Dyad 4 Mystery Bag

Main Idea Picture Analysis

Dyad 5 Restating Information

Color-coded Reading

Dyad 6 Working Backwards (Details to Main Idea)

Does It Belong
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 TIME STARTS NOW!

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vector/stopwatch-hand
 Application

EXPECTED OUTPUT

A sample lesson plan (proficient

teachers) and lesson exemplar
(highly proficient teacher)
integrating at least two of the
simulated activities – one for
lesson proper and one for
assessment / enrichment activity.

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 Application

EXPECTED OUTPUT
Proficient Teachers
Choose the teaching-learning
activities from those discussed.

Highly Proficient Teachers

Think of TWO OTHER activities,
aside from those discussed in the
session and model how to do
that activity in the classroom.
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 Application

WHAT TO DO?
Choose ONE competency from Grade 1, 2, or 3
and match it with two suitable activities that
has been discussed / thought of.

Formulate the objectives of the lesson.

Proceed to the part of the lesson where the

chosen activities will be integrated and write
that part.
 Application

WHAT TO DO?

Discuss in detail in the LP / LE how to do the

activity.

For other parts, just note what will transpire.

 Application

Lesson Plan (Parts)

Competency
I. Learning Objectives
II. Content
III. Learning Activities
A. Preparatory Activity
1. Reading Activity
2. Motivation
 Application

Lesson Plan (Parts)

B. Activity Proper
1. Presentation
2. Modeling
3. Guided Practice
C. Generalization
D. Evaluation
E. Assignment
 Application
Lesson Plan (Sample)
 Application
Lesson Plan (Sample)
 Application

Lesson Plan (Sample)

 Application
Lesson Plan (Sample)

Activity Proper
1. Presentation
Informational text is a non-fiction text written with
the intention of informing the reader about a specific
topic. It presents factual details or information. It is
typically found in magazines, science, or history books,
autobiographies, and other instructional materials.
 Application
Lesson Plan (Sample)

Activity Proper
1. Presentation
DETAILS IN INFORMATIONAL TEXTS
Factual information or details are presented in informational texts.
These texts provide specific details about particular persons, places,
things, events, and topics. Details in informational texts are basically
determined by asking important questions, such as what, who, when,
where, why, and how. These questions serve as guide in getting the
factual details about a given selection or text.
 Application
Lesson Plan (Sample)
Activity Proper
2. Modeling
Based on the selection, answer the following questions:
What type of animals are snakes?
What are the characteristics of snakes?
How will you describe their venom?
What do snakes eat?
 Application
Lesson Plan (Sample)
Activity Proper
3. Guided Practice
Read the selection below. Then, identify what details are
asked. Write the letters of your answers in your
notebook.

4. Independent Practice
Read the selection below. Then, identify what details are
asked. Write the letters of your answers in your
notebook.
 Application
Lesson Plan (Sample)
C. Generalization
Details in informational texts are basically determined
by asking important questions, such as what, who,
when, where, why, and how. These questions serve as
guide in getting the factual details about a given selection
or text.

D. Evaluation
Read the selection below. Then, identify what details are
asked.

E. Assignment
 Application
RUBRIC
Criteria 3 2 1
Very Good Satisfactory For Revision
Objectives All objectives are Only one or two None of the objectives
SMART and can objectives is SMART and given is SMART and
accurately evaluate can accurately evaluate cannot evaluate
learners’ grasp of learners’ grasp of learners’ grasp of the
concepts. concepts. concepts.
Content Two teaching-learning Only one teaching- No teaching-learning
activities were learning activity was activity was included in
included in two included in the lesson. the lesson.
different parts of the
lesson.
 Application
RUBRIC
Criteria 3 2 1
Very Good Satisfactory For Revision
Alignment Both teaching-learning Only one of the two Neither of the two
activities included is teaching-learning teaching-learning
clearly aligned with activities included is activities included is
the set lesson clearly aligned with the clearly aligned with the
objectives. set lesson objectives. set lesson objectives.
Clarity Instructions on how Some part of the Instructions on how
teaching-learning instructions on how teaching-learning
activity will be done in teaching-learning activity will be done in
the classroom are activity will be done in the classroom is unclear
well-written and easy the classroom were a and difficult to follow.
to follow. bit confusing.
 Application
RUBRIC
Criteria 3 2 1
Very Good Satisfactory For Revision
*Originality The two teaching- Only one of the two None of the two
learning activities are teaching-learning teaching-learning
new and can develop activities is new and activities is new and
the target reading can develop the target can develop the
skill. reading skill. target reading skill.
*Modeling Presentation of the Presentation of the Presentation of the
teaching-learning teaching-learning teaching-learning
activities to be used activities to be used activities to be used
during instruction during instruction during instruction
is organized and easy is generally organized is unorganized and
to follow. and somewhat easy to difficult to follow.
follow.
*For highly proficient teachers only.
 Reflection

THINGS I LEARNED THINGS I FOUND QUESTION I STILL

INTERESTING HAVE
 Closure

“Learning is about looking

things differently, making your
life a little better everyday.”
- Richard Bandler
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