Ms. Kovalik works with her third grade reading groups to teach her students the skill of identifying the main idea when they read a passage. She wants the students to transfer the skill to reading in content areas. Which of the following is most likely to help her achieve the goal?
a. Teach students different skills to use in understanding content area reading.
b. Ask parents to identify the main idea for their child when the child reads assignments for homework.
c. Provide practice with the skill to the point of overlearning the strategy and repeating it.
d. Teach students how to identify the main idea or topic sentence when they write.

Option(c) is correct

Explanation:

According to the question, attaining idea about subject of passage through reading passage can be induced in children by making them practice this skill till this method is over-learned .It can be repeated over the time to make children skilled at this method.

Other options are incorrect because goals cannot be achieved through teaching student different skills, parents getting involved in child's assignment for identifying idea and self identification of idea in sentence. Thus, the correct option is option(c).

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