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    This document discusses various graphic organizers that can be used to summarize information from a text, including Venn diagrams, mind maps, sequences of events, and cause-and-effect diagrams. It also describes strategies for answering comprehension questions about a text, such as identifying questions that can be answered directly from the text versus those that require inferences. Summarizing a text is recommended, which involves determining the main ideas, connecting them, and eliminating unnecessary details.

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    This document discusses various graphic organizers that can be used to summarize information from a text, including Venn diagrams, mind maps, sequences of events, and cause-and-effect diagrams. It also describes strategies for answering comprehension questions about a text, such as identifying questions that can be answered directly from the text versus those that require inferences. Summarizing a text is recommended, which involves determining the main ideas, connecting them, and eliminating unnecessary details.

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    This document discusses various graphic organizers that can be used to summarize information from a text, including Venn diagrams, mind maps, sequences of events, and cause-and-effect diagrams. It also describes strategies for answering comprehension questions about a text, such as identifying questions that can be answered directly from the text versus those that require inferences. Summarizing a text is recommended, which involves determining the main ideas, connecting them, and eliminating unnecessary details.

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    • Using Graphic and Semantic

    Organiser
    - Organize the information, facts or
    numbers in a graphic form which
    the learners are comfortable with to
    see any possible sequence.
    - To examine and show relationships
    in a text.
    Some examples of graphic organizers :

    1. Venn Diagram
    2. Mind Mapping Style / Clustering

    Main Topic
    3. Sequences or Chain of Events
    - It provides a view on how the events are
    sequenced.
    - Describe some of the details that are
    associated with each event.
    Event 1
    Details
    Event 2
    Details

    Event 3
    Details
    4. Story Map [Start, Middle, End]

    Starting

    Middle Part

    Ending
    5. Cause & Effect Style
    Cause(s) Effect(s)

    Why did happen ? What happened ?


    6. Simple Dot-Point Style

    • What happened ?
    • How did it happen ?
    • Who was involved ?
    • What was the main problem ?
    Strategies that help…

    • Answering Questions
    - Learners will be loaded with specific comprehension
    questions.

    (i) Questions and answers are straight forward, which are found in the
    text, or in a location e.g. a word or a sentence in the passage.

    (ii) Questions that require answers which may be located in more than
    one place.
    (iii) Questions require the learners to use their prior
    knowledge or background knowledge to be able to
    connect all the pieces of information together to
    answer the questions.

    (iv) Questions require the learners to think critically and


    make deduction as to what suitable answers that are
    acceptable and correct.
    Strategies that help…

    • In story structure instruction, students


    learn to identify the categories of content
    (characters, setting, events, problem,
    resolution).
    Strategies that help…
    • Summarizing
    - Summarizing requires students to determine what is
    important in what they are reading and to put it into
    their own words. Instruction in summarizing helps
    students:
    (i) Identify or generate main ideas
    (ii) Connect the main or central ideas
    (iii) Eliminate unnecessary information
    Things which learners need to do…
    • Identifying key elements in a story and
    summarizing
    • Predicting
    • Questioning
    • Making connections while reading
    • Using pictures to help figure out the text
    • Reading at the right level
    • Writing or journaling

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