A Step-By-Step Guide to Teaching Determining Importance in the Upper Elementary Classroom

Students tend to think that everything they read is important. But - the problem with trying to remember EVERYTHING you read is that you actually end up remembering very little. Our brains can only retain so much information before it goes into overdrive, so its critical to help little brains, aka our students, develop strategies to strain out the nonessential information from the books that they read. How do we do this? It should come as no surprise when I say that we need to explicit...