Use Main Idea and Supporting Details to Determine Importance–Assessment
Assessing Each Strategy
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Identifying and understanding main ideas along with determining importance are prerequisite skills to summarizing text. Readers summarize the most important aspects of the text by determining the details that are significant and discarding those that are not, and state the main idea in their own words, thus improving comprehension.
The following guide will help teachers assess student performance of the strategy.
