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Go to this link for practice with irregular verbs:
http://quizlet.com/821514/english-irregular-verbs-flash-cards/.

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What is summarizing?
it's the distillation, condensation, or reduction of into its primary notions.main ideas and details.
What should you do when you are summarizing?
out main ideasideas- why the story was written
focus on key detailsdetails- important information you need to know to understand the story
use key words and phrases
break down the larger ideas

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What is summarizing?
bare essentials: the gist, the key ideas,ideas and the main
What should you do when you are summarizing?
pull out main ideas

break down the larger ideas
take short, complete notes
Strategies for summarizing
Somebody/ Wanted/ But/ So
Artistic summary

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What is summarizing?
Summarizing is when we take larger selections of text and reduce them to their bare essentials: the gist, the key ideas, the main points that are worth noting and remembering. Webster's calls a summary the "general idea in brief form"; it's the distillation, condensation, or reduction of a larger work into its primary notions.
What should you do when you are summarizing?
pull out main ideas
focus on key details
use key words and phrases
break down the larger ideas
take short, complete notes

Theme
Venn Diagrams
Practice Tests
Identifying Purpose and Tone
Identifying Purpose and Tone 2

Audience
Clarity
Connotation and Denotation
Content
Details