Determining Importance

Our reading comprehension strategy for this month is to determine importance when reading or listening to an informational book.  This means we are deciding if a fact is important to our learning, or if it is just interesting to know.  When we write about a topic we want to use the most important facts. 
We did an anchor lesson using "my" purse.  We decided what was most important, kind of important, not important.  We had some great discussions about the items and their importance.