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Week 04 · Main Topic Meadow

Story Hunt

Story Hunt: topic and details
// Main topic and key details
⏱ about 15 min

Saturday: Story Hunt

Lizzy the Lizard sits on a warm rock with a book.

"Story Hunt day!" she says.

"Find a nonfiction book at home or at the library."

"Then hunt for its main topic and three key details."

Ferris waves his map. "Happy hunting, friends!"

  1. Nonfiction tells true facts about real things.
  2. The main topic is what a text is mostly about.
  3. The title often gives a clue.
  4. Key details tell more about the main topic.
  5. Details hold up the topic, like legs hold up a table.
◇ TOPIC HUNT
Find a nonfiction book with a grown-up.
Read the title together.
Guess the main topic from the title.
Read a page or two.
Find three key details that tell more.
Was your guess right?
HUNT CHECK
  • Read the question.
  • Tap your answer.
A book is called Games in Fern Hollow. What is the main topic?
The topic is games in Fern Hollow. Which one is a key detail?
What does a key detail do?
SentenceTrue or false?
A nonfiction book tells true facts.?
The title can help you find the topic.?
A book has a new main topic on every line.?
WHY THIS EXERCISEA text has one main topic. Its details all tell about it.
Draw your topic table. Put the topic on top and a detail on each leg.
For a grown-up
This week your child learned main topic and key details.
Ask: What is this mostly about? How do you know?
Point to the title, then to a fact that fits.
Praise the looking back, not just the right answer.

Happy hunting! Next week Bennie the Bear teaches steps in order.

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