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teacher or parent prompting, can draw on their senses to imagine smells, sounds, tastes,
and images that go with the story they are reading – like a show or movie in their mind.
9. Summarize
Teaching students to recall the main points or ideas of a story is not easy. First, they
need to be able to put the story in order, then put it in their own words before they can
articulate a ‘summing up’ of the author’s main ideas.
To start to learn to summarize,
young students can practice:
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Selecting the key words from a paragraph
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Locating the topic sentence (often found at the start or end of a paragraph)
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Responding to general questions about a story
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Talking through the story in their own words
10. Teach critical thinking skills
Critical thinking gets readers to think about why an author creates a text in a particular
way (author’s purpose). You can encourage young readers to ask some of the following
questions to get them thinking critically about what they are reading:
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Why did the author write this story?
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What did the author leave out of the story?
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How do I feel about this story?
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