This article describes a comprehension strategy that can be used by teachers to help students identify and construct the main ideas for expository texts. The BURNS Strategy (i.e., Box. Underline. Reread. Note. Summarize.) was developed as part of a larger reading intervention to improve the comprehension performance of struggling readers in the elementary grades. The BURNS strategy was designed to incorporate thinking scaffolds and question prompts to guide students through a thinking process that might help them construct the main ideas. This article reports on the teaching process and instructional scaffolds used in the intervention, and discusses implications for teaching main ideas in the intervention setting.

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支持困难读者理解说明文主要思想的策略指导

本文描述了一种理解策略，教师可以使用它来帮助学生识别和构建说明性文本的主要思想。BURNS 策略（即方框。下划线。重读。注意。总结。）是作为更大的阅读干预的一部分而开发的，目的是提高小学年级有困难的读者的理解能力。BURNS 策略旨在结合思维支架和问题提示，引导学生完成可能有助于他们构建主要思想的思维过程。本文报告了干预中使用的教学过程和教学支架，并讨论了对干预环境中教学主要思想的影响。