Idea Development Guided Notes + PowerPoint
Guided notes and a PowerPoint on tracing how a central idea develops through events, ideas and people in a nonfiction article, offered in four versions with different levels of support.

- Grades
- Grades 6–8, Middle School
- File type
- Multiple File Types
- Subject
- ELA, Strategies
- Topic
- idea development, making inferences
- Resource types
- Literacy Readers, Teacher Tools
About this resource
What's inside this resource
This is a set of Idea Development Notes + PowerPoint.
The PowerPoint will guide students as they learn how to trace the development of ideas.
There are student notes so students can document their learning as they go.
The picture flaps will be an interactive way for students to apply their knowledge.
In the classroom
Teaching tips & learning objectives
Learning objectives
- Trace how a central idea develops across a nonfiction text
- Make inferences from details in an article
- Summarize the central idea of an article
Teaching tips
- The notes are built around the article High Court Reviews Insanity Defense, so have a copy of that text ready before the lesson.
Skills covered
- Tracking idea development — students follow points and events through the article on their notes
- Summarizing — students state the article's central idea using the three-step process
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Resource details
Concepts & topics
Core concepts
- Central idea
- Making inferences
- Summarizing
- Nonfiction text
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