Summarizing
Summarizing teaches students how to take a large selection of text and reduce it to the main points for more concise understanding. It is a technique that enables students to focus on keywords and phrases of an assigned text that are worth noting and remembering.
Upon reading a passage, summarizing will help you learn to determine essential ideas and consolidate important details. The link is an example shows how to summarize.
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Mini Lecture
Click on picture for a PDF that gives you some tips for preparing a mini-lecture.
Mini-lecture provides students the opportunity to review what they have learned from the readings. This is an option for you to summarize the main ideas by presenting orally if you don't want to write them down. In addition, it will be an opportunity for you to improve your speaking skill as well. You can retell the readings for your classmates, your teacher or your parents by recording a video or presenting with visual materials.
Question the Author
Questioning the author is a strategy that engages students actively with a text. Rather than reading and taking information from a text, the QtA strategy encourages students to ask questions of the author and the text.
Through forming your questions, you will learn more about the text. You will learn to ask questions such as: What is the author's message? Does the author explain this clearly? How does this connect to what the author said earlier?"
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