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Summarizing: Lesson Description

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Adult education instructor Kay Combs explains how a lesson in summarizing can help students with reading comprehension.

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In this video, adult education instructor Kay Combs explains how a lesson in summarizing can help students with reading comprehension.

In this lesson, Combs introduced the materials, helped the students activate their prior knowledge about the text, modeled summarizing using graphic organizers, and collaborated with students about the main ideas of the reading.

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What kinds of materials do you use for teaching reading comprehension? How do you try to connect reading materials to issues that students may identify with?
Do you think using graphic organizers assists with reading comprehension or distracts from the text? Explain your answer.
How does summarizing boost reading comprehension?

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