Lessons
Lesson teaching a specific strategy for identifying main ideas in a text.
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Podcasts
Comprehension: Get the Gist
Description of a strategy for teaching students how to identify a text’s main ideas.
Podcasts
Comprehension: Summarizing Text
Description of a strategy for teaching students how to write a summary.
Lessons
Comprehension: Questioning to Support Summarizing
Lesson teaching readers to focus on what the author is trying to say in a passage. For use when a student struggles with summarizing a text.
Lessons
Comprehension (Spanish): Get the Gist
Lesson materials for students to identify the main idea or “get the gist.” All materials are in Spanish.
Booklets
Effective Upper-Elementary Interventions for Students with Reading Difficulties: Vocabulary and Comprehension
Booklet with step-by-step lessons for teaching vocabulary and comprehension.