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Sophia: Summarizing a Source

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This slideshow focuses on summarizing a research source; it lists the uses for summary, and explains what a summary is and is not. It explains how to summarize a text and incorporate it into a paper.
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Tom Richey

Slide Share: 3rd Grade Summarizing and Paraphrasing

For Students 3rd
A slide show with eight slides with explanations and examples of paraphrasing and summarizing a text.
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: Expand Story or History Text Based Dialog[pdf]

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
Students will use graphic organizers to help them make inferences about historical figures' feeings and motives. Students will summarize the information during an extension activity.
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Prezi: Summarizing a Text

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Slideshow provides an explanation of summarizing and describes how to make a good one.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Summary and Paraphrase: Tutorial

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this slideshow tutorial, students are provided with notes that distinguish "summarizing" from "paraphrasing" content. Examples of effective summaries and paraphrases of text are provided. Then students have the opportunity to engage...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Reading Strategies: Tutorial

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
In this slideshow tutorial, students will review different types of reading strategies to promote comprehension of text. The strategies included are the following: making predictions, visualizing, questioning the text, retelling,...
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Ncrel: Reading Strategies: Before, During, and After [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page provides a detailed chart to aid students' understanding of texts. It goes through the steps of pre-reading, during reading, and after reading, outlining what students should be thinking about as they interact with a text. This...
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Polk Brothers Foundation Center for Urban Education at DePaul University

De Paul University: Center for Urban Education: I Can Identify and Infer Character Traits[pdf]

For Students 4th - 8th Standards
Students will identify character traits directly and inferentially with the help of this graphic organizer. Students will summarize their findings after completing the graphic organizer.
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Prezi: Writing a Summary of Nonfiction

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
Writing a summary is an excellent way for students to demonstrate their understanding of nonfiction text. This slideshow explains what makes a good summary and delves into the four basic rules for writing a summary of nonfiction text.

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