Reading Comprehension

Summarizing

Summarizing

• Reading Comprehension is important so that we understand what we read.

• One way to make sure we comprehend what we read is to retell what we read.

Have you ever retold a story?

Retelling is a way of summarizing.

It’s important because it extracts the essential information of a text:

• the main idea

• the supporting details

Retelling

In order to retell, you need to think about the major elements of the text. These include:

• Characters

• Setting

• Problem

• Attempts to resolve problem

• Resolution

• Outcome

Tools

You may use different tools to help you retell the story.

Maybe you’ve seen some of these?

Story Map

or

Graphic Organizer

or

Story Time

Sit back and listen to the story that I will read.

…

Retelling with a Story Map

I thought about the:

• characters

• setting

• Problem

• Resolution

Retelling with a Story Map

Then, I used a story map to retell this story.

Story Time!

Sit back and listen to the story that I will read.

Retelling

Your turn!

Choose one of the graphic organizers to retell the story that you just heard.