6.6D - The student is expected to paraphrase and summarize texts in ways that maintain meaning and logical order.

• Summarizing text is a specific skill that students use when they reduce information to its main ideas and fundamental points. Students may summarize a piece of writing by identifying its components and determining the correct order in which those components appear in the text. For example, students who are summarizing a story read in class should be able to express the main idea conveyed by the author, the details that support it, and the order of events throughout the text