Identify Summary Strategies for Reading Comprehension

Being able to accurately summarize a reading to someone else is the ultimate demonstration that you understand the reading’s contents.

Consider this fun example of a summary from the “30-Second Bunny Theater” series:

This recap of the well-known movie Star Wars is a blend of major plot points and fan-favorite scenes. In other words, it conveys all the major points of the film. It also adds a couple of supporting details to capture the flavor of the entire movie. Plus bunny ears.

What You Will Learn to Do

• identify annotation strategies
• identify strategies to paraphrase a text’s thesis statement
• identify strategies to identify and quote significant passages from a text
• identify strategies to distinguish a text’s major claims from minor ones
• identify strategies to convey the essential features of a text to someone who hasn’t read it

The Learning Activities for This Outcome Include

• Text: Annotating
• Text: Paraphrasing a Thesis Statement
• Text: Choosing Appropriate Quotes
• Presentation: Major and Minor Details
• Video: Summarizing
• Self Check: Summary Skills
• Try It: Summary Skills