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Writing 'De-Tails'


December 06, 2007

Janis Hurd, a fourth-grade teacher at Shelton Park Elementary School in Virginia Beach, Virginia

As I was planning a lesson about main idea and supporting details in November, I thought of an appropriate visual to use. I cut out a large brown paper turkey (without the tail) and some 18" x 6" strips of colored paper. I wrote my main idea on the 'body' of the turkey and wrote one detail on each strip, tapered to look like feathers. The details were 'de-tail'! Then I used our Ellison machine to cut small turkey bodies for my students to use, along with 6" x 1" strips for their feathers. We got some great bodies and details from that lesson!

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