Explores numerous summarization strategies, including all of the steps and examples educators need to start using summarization to improve students' comprehension and boost their long-term memory.

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The Case for Summarization -- Summarization Savvy -- Summarization Techniques -- 3-2-1 -- Acronyms -- Advance Organizers -- Analysis Matrices and Graphic Organizers -- Backwards Summaries -- Bloom’s Taxonomy Summary Cubes -- Body Analogies -- Body Sculpture -- Build a Model -- Camp Songs -- Carousel Brainstorming -- Charades -- Concrete Spellings -- Design a Test -- Exclusion Brainstorming -- The Frayer Model -- Human Bingo -- Human Continuum -- Inner or Outer Circle -- Jigsaws -- Learning Logs and Journals -- Lineup -- Luck of the Draw -- Moving Summarizations -- Multiple Intelligences -- One-Word Summaries -- P-M-I -- Partners A and B -- Point of View -- P-Q-R-S-T -- RAFT -- Save the Last Word for Me -- Share One; Get One -- Socratic Seminars -- Something-Happened-and-Then/Somebody-Wanted-But-So -- Sorting Cards -- Spelling Bee de Strange -- SQ3R -- Summarization Pyramids -- Summary Ball -- Synectic Summaries -- T-Chart/T-List -- Taboo® -- Test Notes -- Think-Pair-Share -- Traditional Rules-Based Summaries -- Triads -- Unique Summarization Assignments -- Verbs? Change Them! -- Word Splash Conclusion -- Sample Texts and Summarization Practice Activities -- Resources -- Index.