Summarising Skills

Summarising, (or summarizing!) is a very important text to show that you can retell and comprehend what you have read, as well as determine the main idea.     Click the images below to go to some online activities to help with summarising and finding the main idea. If you finish early, write a comment…

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Forming a Synthesis

Our focus strategy at the moment is learning to form a synthesis.  Synthesising is one of the hardest comprehension skills because to do it you need to ask questions, infer, make connections, use your background knowledge and summarise!   Phew! Our reading groups tasks this week is to form a synthesis on our much-loved book…

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