A teacher instructs students to follow these steps during reading an article: Find or write a topic sentence for each paragraph or section; identifying big ideas that cover several specific points; find some supporting information for each big ideas and delete any redundant information or unnecessary details. Which one of the strategies the teacher is using here:?

Option 2 : Summarizing

Summarising is a useful way of helping your child understand and focus on the important information they have read. To summarize a text is to briefly explain the crux of the information. It can only be done if the learners have read the information and can effectively tell about the text.

• In the above-mentioned phenomenon, the teacher is involving students in Summarizing as a summary is a shorter version of the original. The purpose is to help the audience get the gist in a short period of time.
• A summary can be used to provide the background to the topic, set the stage, and illustrate the evidence that is supporting the main theme. But all these should be very brief and not at all too elaborate.
• First of all the one most important things to keep in mind is the audience to whom the summary is made. Is this person a common man, layman, professional, media personnel, children, etc.

From the above-mentioned key points, we can conclude that the teacher is asking the students for summarizing the text.