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Summing It All Up

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Students explore reading comprehension and how to summarize an article using a web. They explore the six steps of summarization. Students read "The World's Smallest Bird". They review how to read a text silently and then they discuss the six steps to summarization. Students summarize the text.

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reading comprehension, summarizing, independent reading

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comprehension, silent reading, summarization, web, english language arts
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2nd - 5th
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English Language Arts
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