“…The process of identifying the main idea in a text is related to the ability to activate prior knowledge, self-monitoring, self-questioning, reading comprehension, and organizing text information (Garner, 1990;Jitendra, Cole, Hoppes and Wilson, 1998). Research has shown that when teaching the skills of main idea identification to students struggling with reading they used effective paraphrasing skills and were able to recall more main ideas and details (Hagaman and Reid, 2008;Ilter, 2017a;Lauterbach and Bender, 1995). At this point, teaching students about a range of reading comprehension strategies will not only enhance their reading comprehension, but will also develop their awareness of how these improve their reading skills (Beck, Buehl and Barber, 2015).…”