We've been learning about summarizing in Reading.
Many students confuse summarizing and retelling the story. While a retell is a play by play of all the sequential events in the story, a summary is a brief overview of the story as a whole. Covering the beginning, middle, and end of the story allow the summarizer to grasp all the main ideas. Here is a good tool to help weed out unnecessary detail...
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