Whats the main idea? That is what we were trying to workout. Using a differentiated non-fiction text about weeds, students read together and then individual had to write on seven strips of paper their seven most important points from the text. Once they had finished, students paired up and compared there fourteen points and together narrowed down their main ideas to seven they agreed upon. The final challenge as to met up again as a whole reading group and narrow our choices down once again to just seven that the whole group could agree upon. This resulted in some interesting discussion between students as the shared their own perspectives on the main idea of the text.