Summarizing supports comprehension.

• A. It helps identify important information only.
• B. It helps identify important information, themes, problems, solutions, and sequence, and using your own words along with graphic organizers and previewing the text further supports comprehension.
• C. It is not related to understanding the text.
• D. It replaces reading the entire text.

Answer: (B)

Summarizing helps comprehension by condensing the text to its essential ideas and restating them in your own words. As you summarize, you focus on the main information, the themes that run through the text, any problems and their solutions, and the sequence of events. Restating in your own words shows you’ve truly grasped what you read, and it makes it easier to remember. Using graphic organizers, like story maps or concept maps, helps you see how ideas are connected and how the sequence unfolds, making relationships clearer. Previewing the text before reading sets a purpose and activates prior knowledge, so you know what to look for and how the pieces might fit together. This combination—identifying key ideas, themes, problems/solutions, sequence, paraphrasing, organizing with supports, and previewing—strengthens understanding rather than just recalling isolated details. It’s not about reading less; it’s about reading with purpose and organizing meaning.