Summary-A Great Comprehension Skill
As students get to more advanced material, the focus of studying moves to reading, comprehending and recalling material that has been read from textbooks, articles or other material. One way to build comprehension power is to teach students to summarize.
Summarizing involves pulling the important points from reading material, organizing them, and paraphrasing them in a shorter form. Practice helps! So do examples. Provide your reading student with lots of examples and then challenge him or her to summarize information from longer sentences to paragraphs to entire articles.