READING STRATEGIES AND SUMMARIZING TECHNIQUES

This is the very purpose of summarizing.

• To retell a story

• To reduce information to essential ideas

• To get through an article more quickly

• To get through an article more quickly

We want to _____ unimportant information, when summarizing a text

• summarize

• highlight

• disregard

• include

It gives the reader an idea about what the paragraph is going to be about.

• Concluding sentence

• Topic sentence

• Summary

• Body

Who, What, When, Where, Why, How are basic signal words.

• True

• False

Somebody, Wanted, Because, So, Then is an excellent summarizing strategy for stories where each word represents a key question related to the story’s essential elements.

• True

• False

SAAC Method requires the name of texts' authors.

• True

• False