A reading comprehension strategy used to help understand a text that is being read. "The reader attempts to identify and write the main or most important ideas that integrate or unite the other ideas or meanings of a text into a coherent whole." Working with paragraphs, readers identify what is trivial, what is important, and what the topic of a paragraph is. Passages with multiple paragraphs can be summarized by creating summaries for individual paragraphs and then summarizing these summaries ( NRP, p. 4-6, 4-69,).