A retelling is like a paraphrase. When you compare a retelling to the original text, it's about the same length. A retelling includes a lot of the information found in the text.

However, a summary is going to be a little more general. It's not the main idea, but it's significantly shorter than a retelling. It's much more general.

How do you get kids to write a summary? How do you get them to write something shorter and more general--a just-the-highlights version of the original text? First, compare it to ESPN SportsCenter.

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