lesson worth o ideas

• Determining the worth of ideas


  Focusing on what is significant on the information you have listened to
• Important information


  Main ideas or key topics that you need to better understand the concept you are listening to
• Interesting information


  Little detail or additional detail
• Filtering


  Selecting only the information necessary to better understand the selection that you are listening to
• Determining worth of ideas includes

  • Identifying your purpose for listening
  • Distinguishing between important and unimportant information to identify key ideas
  • Determining topic and main idea
  • Identifying author's message
  • Using knowledge of narrative or expository text features/structures
  • Recognizing relevance
• Determining the worth of ideas mentioned in the text listened to varies by genre
• Narrative/Fiction genres


  • Novels
  • Short stories
  • Diaries
  • Biographies
  • Some songs
  • Dramatic monologues
  • Plays
  • Narrative films
  • Poems
  • Myth
  • Legends
  • Fairytales
• Narrative/Fiction genres


  • Intend to tell a story, to provide entertainment, or to make an audience think about an issue, teach the reader a lesson or excite their emotions
• Nonfiction genres


  • History
  • Biographies
  • Autobiographies
  • Memoirs
  • Travel guides
  • Travelogues
  • Academic texts
  • Philosophy
  • Insight
  • Journalism
  • Guidelines
  • Manuals
• Nonfiction genres


  • Broad genres of writing that encompass all books that aren't rooted in a fictional narrative. It can be based in history and biography; it can be instructional, it can offer commentary and humor, and it can ponder philosophical questions