Summary and Close Reading

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What is a summary? Options: A restatement of a piece of writing that is both brief and written in your own words, One long quote that uses all of the author's words exactly, The reader's personal thoughts and opinions about the article and the author, Just putting the main idea of an article into your own words

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A restatement of a piece of writing that is both brief and written in your own words

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When writing a summary, what type of information do you want to use for the supporting details?

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Only the important information or key details that the article gives

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Why do we number our paragraphs before reading a new article?

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Because it helps us pin-point key details

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What should you be doing during your "First Reading" of a new article?

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Trying to understand what the article is about in general

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What strategy do we use to help us produce the main idea of an article?

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Identify + Verb + Topic + Finish the Thought (I+V+T+F)

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What should you be doing during your "Second Reading" of a new article? Options: Looking for the main idea using the I+V+T+F strategy, Underlining new thoughts that will become the supporting details, Numbering your paragraphs, Looking for the topic of the article, the who or what the article is about

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Underlining new thoughts that will become the supporting details

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What information will you plug into your graphic organizer?

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The main idea and supporting details of the article

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What format will your final product be in? Options: Written in a graphic organizer, Written in a paragraph, Written in one sentence, Written to match the length of the article

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Written in a paragraph

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What is close reading?

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Reading a text carefully to both understand it and answer questions about it

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What do we use to help us form conclusions about difficult words or ideas? Options: Context Clues, Main Idea, Supporting Details, I+V+T+F

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Context Clues