Theorists Have Offered a Number of Suggestions Regarding How Teachers

question 42

Multiple Choice

Theorists have offered a number of suggestions regarding how teachers might help students develop better summaries of classroom subject matter. Which one of the strategies below do they not recommend?

• A) Have students identify the most important ideas and then find information that supports each idea.
• B) Have students look for and delete ideas that seem relatively trivial.
• C) Begin by having students read exceptionally difficult texts, so that they acquire an appreciation for the value of summarizing.
• D) Have students compare their summaries with one another and discuss their reasons for choosing some ideas as being more important than others.

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