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Are your students having trouble summarizing? Need a reading strategy that will help your students write a well-developed summary of a story? Asking students to summarize reading requires them to think at the higher levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy, such as analysis and synthesis. Well, try the SWBST strategy. This strategy can be used to help students understand plot elements such as conflicts and resolutions. It allows the student to summarize the elements of a story and develop the summary into a

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