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Only the Facts

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Practice the strategy of summarizing to gain meaning and knowledge from an informational text. Young readers highlight supporting details and main ideas, and then they use this to summarize two articles: "The Great Quake" and "What is an Earthquake?" from National Geographic. Give your class strategies for reading comprehension with this resource.

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main ideas, central ideas, compare and contrast texts, compare and contrast, text analysis, key details, details, supporting details, reading fluency, retelling, topic sentences

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fluency, Expository Writing, Informational Text, key details, main idea, retell, summarizing, supporting details, topic sentence, describe, compare texts, ri.2.2, sl.2.2, w.2.2, ri.2.9, ri.2.8, english language arts
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1st - 4th
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English Language Arts
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45 mins
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