Identify Summary Strategies for Reading Comprehension

You’re most likely familiar with summaries. Being able to accurately summarize a reading to someone else is the ultimate demonstration that you understand the reading’s contents.

What You Will Learn to Do

• identify annotation strategies
• identify strategies to paraphrase a text’s thesis statement
• identify strategies to identify and quote significant passages from a text
• identify strategies to distinguish a text’s major claims from minor ones
• identify strategies to convey the essential features of a text to someone who hasn’t read it

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