This document discusses strategies for summarizing and note-taking. It explains that instruction and practice in summarization techniques can improve students' reading comprehension. The teacher should model summarizing strategies and provide ample practice time with feedback. Common approaches include using summarization frames with a series of questions, reciprocal teaching where students generate questions about the text, and creating informal outlines or webs to extract the most important information from texts.
2. SUMMARIZING No paraphrasing readingcomprehensiontask Rule-basedstrategy Reduce a texttoitsbareessentials Brown, Champione and Day (1981) instruction and practicenot only improve students' ability to summarize text, but also their overall comprehension of text content(Farstrup, 2002).
3. ROLE OF THE TEACHER Teacheris a model The teacher must allow students ample practice time with appropriate feedback. DIRECT-SHOW HOW
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