In this video, Stephanie Gaboury of the Blue Hills Adult Education Program reflects on a lesson she taught her intermediate-level ABE students (GLE 4-8.9) on how to use a reading comprehension strategy to help them summarize a text by finding the topic and main idea of each paragraph. 

As part of a broader unit on female empowerment and social activism, Ms. Gaboury chose a reading from CommonLit entitled ”Marley Dias: The 13-Year-Old Author Who Made a Difference” for this lesson. You will need to create a free account to view the reading on CommonLit, which is an online resource for digital readings and related activities.

For the lesson video and related resources, visit Video: Evidence-Based Reading Instruction - Comprehension.