Summarizing: Activating Prior Knowledge

PBS Learning Media
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PBS Learning Media
Resource Type
Classroom Material Lesson
Keywords
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Subjects
English-Language Arts Reading Professional Development
Grade Levels
Post-Secondary
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Summarizing: Activating Prior Knowledge

In this video, adult educator instructor Kay Combs helps students activate their prior knowledge about a text in order to summarize it and increase their reading comprehension. The students use what they already know to inform their understanding of new information in the reading.

These resources are part of KET's Reading Instructional Strategies collection.
Publisher
PBS Learning Media

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