Determine Important Ideas and Themes

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"Strategic readers focus on introductory material, topic sentences, and/or concluding material in order to identify important parts of text and to distinguish among subplots, examples, big ideas, and underlying themes."

Reference:

Boke, Nick and Hewitt, Geof. Reading to Learn A Classroom Guide to Reading Strategy Instruction. Vermont Strategic Reading Initiative. 2004.