Good books, articles, and movies are full of interesting details. But when you’re discussing them with a friend, you want to make a long story short. In other words, you summarize.
In this lesson you will:
- Review the basics of summarizing
- Identify main idea statements and detail statements
- Use categories to summarize lists
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Main Idea, Prediction, and Inference