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Understanding SSR: Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Retelling in Reading

Dive into the techniques of summarizing, paraphrasing, and retelling to enhance reading comprehension. This guide explains how these skills are interconnected, starting from the very basics in kindergarten. Learn to retell stories orally, put ideas into your own words through paraphrasing, and create concise summaries that capture the main ideas and important details of texts. Discover strategies to approach both fiction and nonfiction, ensuring your summaries reflect the structure and theme of the original works.

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Understanding SSR: Summarizing, Paraphrasing, and Retelling in Reading

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  1. Marvelous Monday September 17, 2011 Begin with SSR (sustained, silent, reading)

  2. Summarizing, paraphrasing and retelling • How are they related?

  3. Retelling Begin with this in Kindergarten Telling again Orally retelling what is remembered from the text

  4. Paraphrasing • Put it in your own words • Restate ideas from a text in a new way.

  5. Summarize 1. A summary should be shorter than the original text. • How much shorter? • It depends on the purpose and audience.

  6. Summary 2. It should include the main ideas of the text. • Sometimes these are explicitly stated. This makes it easy. • Sometimes they are implicit.

  7. Summary • It should reflect the structure and order of the original text. • Fiction, written in chronological order, is easiest to summarize. • Authors use a variety of structures when writing nonfiction. (compare-and-contrast, main point, then supporting detail, problem-solution, etc.)

  8. Summary • It should include important details. • Those are the details that support the author’s main points. • Important details are not simply those you found interesting.

  9. What does a good summary look like?1. Includes important ideas2. Trivia deleted3. Ideas stated once.4. Lists collapsed5. Topic sentence included6. Synthesis includes author’s viewpoint in a nonfiction text. 7. Synthesis includes the theme in a fiction text.

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