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10A Summarize Main Idea & Supporting Details

TEKS: Students are expected to summarize the main ideas, supporting details, and
relationships among ideas in text succinctly in ways to maintain meaning and logical order. .
(paired with Fig 19D, F)

Objective: Students will be able to select the main idea and organize supporting details
after reading a short passage.

Lesson Instructions:
1. After re-teaching and practicing identifying main idea, give students 5-7 minutes to
read “San Antonio’s Remarkable History.”
2. Then, alone or with a partner, students should sort the main idea and detail cards.
3. After determining the main ideas, students should organize the supporting details
underneath each main idea.
4. Debrief and discuss ways to annotate for main idea/supporting details while reading.
San Antonio is a city In 1691 a group of San Antonio is the third
with a long and Spanish explorers in largest city in Texas.
interesting history. Texas happened upon
a river and a Native
American settlement.

Fewer than 200 Texas The soldiers at the The battle of the Alamo
soldiers and volunteers Alamo held off the helped Texas become
gathered in the Alamo. Mexican army for 13 an independent
days. Republic.

Because of the railroad In 1900, San Antonio The first civil

San Antonio grew was the largest city in government in Texas
quickly after 1877. Texas. was established in 1731
by settlers from the
Canary Islands. .

In 1716, the Spanish built Five railways brought San Antonio was mostly
a fort on the San goods and people into under Spanish control
Antonio River. the city by the year for over 100 years.
1900.