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Using Paraphrasing and Text Structure Instruction to Support Main Idea Generation
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Elizabeth A. Stevens; Sharon Vaughn – TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2021
The Institute for Education Sciences identifies main idea and summarization instruction as effective practices for improving adolescent students' reading comprehension. Main idea generation is a higher-level comprehension skill that requires students to read the text, connect information across the paragraph or section, determine the most…
Descriptors: Writing Instruction, Writing Skills, Reading Comprehension, Language Processing