How To Teach Central Idea to Your Middle School Students

Raise your hand if teaching central idea makes you want to bang your head against the wall?! 🤦‍♀️

I have found that when you ask students to tell you the central idea of an article, there are two types of responses: The one where they retell every single detail from the article and the one where they just respond with one or two words related to the topic. You might have that rare unicorn of a student who knows how to drill down to the central idea, but more than likely your students can use some help with this concept.

If so, I’m here with 4 steps you can follow to teach central idea to your middle school students!

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