Strategy Definitions

After reading, effective readers can retell, summarize, and evaluate text they have read.

1. Retelling: the reader’s ability to comprehensively recount information from text. This information is organized around text elements (characters, setting, problem, etc.)

2. Summarization: the reader’s ability to condense the major ideas and some details into an abbreviated form.

3. Evaluation: the reader’s ability to purposefully integrate selected information from the text with their own prior knowledge and react to it.