You want to teach your students to summarize. You have a passage two pages long that you want them to practice on. According to research on teaching the process, which of the following is the most effective?

a. Have the students highlight the information they think is important in each paragraph.
b. Have the students skim the material and identify the paragraph in the passage that they think is most important.
c. Have the students construct a topic sentence for each paragraph.
d. Have the students write down the facts in the passage that they think are important.


c

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