Lessons
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.
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Comprehension: Summarizing Text
Description of a strategy for teaching students how to write a summary.
Lessons
Comprehension: Summarizing & Asking Questions (Wrap-Up)
Lesson teaching students to summarize a text and ask their own questions about the text after reading.
Podcasts
Comprehension: Get the Gist
Description of a strategy for teaching students how to identify a text’s main ideas.
Lessons
Comprehension: Check the Main Idea
Lesson teaching a specific strategy for identifying main ideas in a text.