NY Next Generation ELA 2SL2
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Recount or describe key ideas or details of diverse texts and formats.
New York State Next Generation English Language Arts Learning Standards
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What This Cluster Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students recount or describe key ideas and details from texts and information presented in varied formats. They preserve the important meaning.
What Mastery Looks Like
- The student identifies the central point and key support from a picture, audio, chart, or text. The recount is accurate and organized.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may focus on the most entertaining detail. They may list everything or omit the main idea.
How to Assess It
- Provide a short illustrated text and audio explanation. Ask students to recount the main idea and one key detail from each format.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Arrange key-detail cards from visual, oral, and written sources around a main-idea card.
Ask students which detail someone must know.
Play Key Detail Keep or Cut with mixed-format information.
Recount important information from a school announcement and poster.
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Related Standards
- 3SL2
Determine the central ideas and supporting details or information presented in diverse texts and formats (e.g., including visual, quantitative, and oral).
- KR2
Retell stories or share key details from a text.
- 1SL2
Develop and answer questions about key details in diverse texts and formats.
- 2R2
Identify a main topic or central idea and retell key details in a text; summarize portions of a text.
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