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    Summarizing: Summarizing Is When You Tell What's Important in Your Own Words

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    The document discusses several reading comprehension strategies: summarizing involves restating the important details in your own words using a "Somebody-wanted-but-so" structure; questioning involves asking who, what, when, where, why, and how questions before, during, and after reading; monitoring and clarifying involves checking your understanding and getting help if needed; predicting involves making educated guesses about what might happen next based on clues; visualizing involves creating mental images; inferring uses background knowledge and context clues to understand the author's message; and evaluating involves deciding what you liked and disliked about a text and explaining your opinions.

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    The document discusses several reading comprehension strategies: summarizing involves restating the important details in your own words using a "Somebody-wanted-but-so" structure; questioning involves asking who, what, when, where, why, and how questions before, during, and after reading; monitoring and clarifying involves checking your understanding and getting help if needed; predicting involves making educated guesses about what might happen next based on clues; visualizing involves creating mental images; inferring uses background knowledge and context clues to understand the author's message; and evaluating involves deciding what you liked and disliked about a text and explaining your opinions.

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    The document discusses several reading comprehension strategies: summarizing involves restating the important details in your own words using a "Somebody-wanted-but-so" structure; questioning involves asking who, what, when, where, why, and how questions before, during, and after reading; monitoring and clarifying involves checking your understanding and getting help if needed; predicting involves making educated guesses about what might happen next based on clues; visualizing involves creating mental images; inferring uses background knowledge and context clues to understand the author's message; and evaluating involves deciding what you liked and disliked about a text and explaining your opinions.

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    Summarizing

    Summarizing is when you tell whats important in your own words.


    You can summarize by saying Somebody-wanted-but-so.

    Questioning is when you ask questions before, during, and after reading.

    Questioning

    Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?

    You monitor/clarify when you ask yourself if you understand what youve read and fix what you dont.
    1. Re-read the sentence. 2. Look at the pictures. 3. Ask for help.

    Monitor/ Clarify

    Predicting is when you make an educated guess about what might happen in a story.

    Predicting

    Think of the title, illustrations, and what you have already read. Make a couple of guesses about what happens next.

    Visualizing is when you make a movie in your mind.


    Y Stop and describe the pictures that you see in your mind.

    Visualizing

    Inferring is when you use what you already know plus what you read to decide what the author is trying to tell you.

    Inferring

    When you make an inference you often ask why things happen.

    Evaluating is when you decide whether or not you like a text and explain why.

    Evaluating

    What did you like? What didnt you like? What did the story make you think of?

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