This document discusses strategies for summarizing and note-taking. It explains that instruction and practice in summarization techniques can improve students' reading comprehension. The teacher should model summarizing strategies and provide ample practice time with feedback. Common approaches include using summarization frames with a series of questions, reciprocal teaching where students generate questions about the text, and creating informal outlines or webs to extract the most important information from texts. Examples are also given of how natural disasters like earthquakes can initially hurt an economy but often lead to growth in the long-run as rebuilding and recovery efforts increase job availability and output.