10-second review: What do we mean by “strategies” in learning? Focus on teaching children strategies to use when they read and write. What strategy will students use, for example, when they summarize a book? See “Comment” below.
Source: KR Mehigan. Reading Teacher (March 2005), 552-566. A publication of the International Reading Association (IRA).
Comment: That is, what steps will they take in order to summarize? They will read the passage and underline the key words, then put the key words into a few sentences that produce the essence of the meaning.
An example of a word, “summary,” that “everyone is expected to do,” but no one ever tells you how to do it. RayS.
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