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Practice summary writing with informational texts. Young readers create summaries after reading magazine articles, newspaper articles, or other forms of informational texts. Readers use the GRASP strategy (read text, write what you remember, delete trivial information, put it in a graphic organizer, and write the summary). You can use any informational reading passage for this activity.

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magazines, summaries, newspapers, news media

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grasp procedure, Informational Text, magazines, newspapers, summary, ccss.ela-literacy.ri.11-12.2, english language arts
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7th - 12th
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English Language Arts
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