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Summarizing and Paraphrasing Summarizing is how we take larger selections of text and reduce them to their bare essentials. Gives the gist of the story.

Interactive summarizing lesson http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/studyskills/15to18/understand/Summarising/resources/genericcontent_tcm4268851.asp

Interactive summarizing quiz http://www.tv411.org/lessons/cfm/reading.cfm?str=reading&num=6&act=1

Interactive paraphrasing activity http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/619/02/