Introduction to Reading Skills: Identify Main Idea Rap

Teach your students how to understand plot and structure of a story text (RI.6.2)

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The Lyrics:

Main Idea, Main Idea
Do you know, The Main Idea?
Main Idea, Main Idea
Do you know, The Main Idea?
You can find it in the middle of a paragraph
You can find it in the first sentence
You can find it in the last sentence
These are the places you can find the Main Idea

The Main Idea is what the text is mostly about
You have to read the whole test
Just to figure it out
This can be tricky
So you have to watch it
To find the main idea
You have to know the topic
Look at the title
And make an inference
Go back to the text
You must find evidence
To figure out if your guess was correct
If you struggle with this
I want you to calm your nerves
Process the text
Look for repeated words
How to analyze the text
You must learn
The question is
What does the author want me to know?
When you figure this out
Then you will know

Main Idea, Main Idea
Do you know, The Main Idea?
Main Idea, Main Idea
Do you know, The Main Idea?
You can find it in the middle of a paragraph
You can find it in the first sentence
You can find it in the last sentence
These are the places you can find the Main Idea