This document discusses summarizing skills and how teachers can help students improve. It recommends that teachers reflect on when summarizing is important for students, such as comprehending long texts. Summarizing helps students derive meaning and focus on key ideas. Teachers should model summarizing, provide guidance, and give feedback to help students learn to effectively summarize texts.

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Instruction
Peter Pappas
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Skill Building #1: Reflecting on summarizing skills
Deriving Meaning
1. In what situation is it important for my students
by Summarizing to summarize? (a few examples)
2. What does summarizing help my students do?
3. What