Subica Hussain
Master of Arts in Teaching
Active Readers Summarize
Sum it up!
Work Cited:
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Summarizing teaches students how to take the most important ideas in a particular text, how to ignore irrelevant information, and how to make connections between the important ideas. Teaching students to summarize helps them remember what they have read. The teacher should give examples on how to summarize texts to ensure that the students know how to pick important ideas and not the non-essential events in the text.
Common Core Reading Standard involving the application of comprehension strategy "Summarizing."
RL.5.2: Determine a theme of a story, drama, or poem from details in the text, including how characters in a story or drama respond to challenges or how the speaker in a poem reflects upon a topic; summarize the text.
RI.5.2: Determine two or more main ideas of a text and explain how they are supported by key details; summarize the text.
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