1 Who jumped in puddles? 2 Who said, “I don’t want to get my books wet”? 3 Why did Martin stop jumping? 4 Where did the story take place? How do you know? 5 Which of these words describes Martin? Which describes Jaydon? clean careful messy sensible fun silly
6 Talk in pairs. Who would you rather play with, Martin or Jaydon? Why?
Finding the main idea
To find the main idea : • decide what the picture or story is about • ask yourself
“What is the most important idea in the picture or story?”
1 What is the main idea of this picture? a) Dad sat on the sofa. b) Dad and Tina read a book. c) The sofa is green.
• Questions 5 and 6: Pupils may disagree. Encourage them to express their own opinion . • Exercise 1 extension: Practise identifying the main idea by showing pupils other illustrations and discussing, as a class, what the main idea is. For example, you could look at the illustrations on pages 10 and 11. • Find more work on ‘finding the main idea’ in Workbook 2 pages 91–92.
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