Considering reading comprehension, what does “summarizing" mean?
o a) locating supportive sources
ob) gaining the main ideas of passages or the text as a whole
oc) a good way to avoid errors in grammar
d) not understanding the text you are reading

B. Gaining the main ideas of passages or the text as a whole

Explanation:

A summary gives a brief of the major points in a long piece of writing. It can be in a research paper and essays or any other piece of writing. Usually, all the main ideas should be noted in a single paragraph or two, depending on the length of the piece of paper.

A summary is usually written when the original piece may be too long for either presentation or a more fundamental understanding of the concepts. The review leaves out details and information and picks out only significant points. The info left may distract the leader from focusing on the main points.

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.

two factors or characteristics of a chapter that might make it difficult to read would be words i don't understand, or if i don't fully understand what's going on in the chapter. strategies i can use to get through the difficult material would be a dictionary, and re-reading previous chapters to get a better grasp of what the author is trying to say.