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Students will learn how to summarize the key details and main idea of the text. In this lesson, students will read a text about and written by Mia Hamm called Winners Never Quit. Students will learn ...

Students will focus on determining the main idea and the key details that support it. In this lesson, students will focus on determining the main idea and the key details that support it. Students ...

This study examined the influence of prior knowledge on the strategies used by expert readers to identify and state the main idea of a text when the main idea is not explicit. Expert readers from the ...

Why do so many students struggle to understand what they read, even after they learn how to read? That’s a topic of hot debate among reading researchers. One camp has been arguing that schools have ...