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Welcome to the RAP strategy!

There are 3 Steps

RAP is an acronym for the steps of the strategy. The steps are: Read, Ask, Put

Now help me use the RAP strategy on this paragraph!

Proliferation is best understood as the rapid increase in the number and destructive capability of armaments. Evidence of the impact of proliferation on world affairs can be seen in the arms race between Germany and Great Britain that helped to spark World War I; the nuclear arms race between the superpowers, the U.S. and the Soviet Union, that brought us to the brink of a World War III; and the clandestine arms buildup in Iraq that helped it fight the Gulf War.

What's the point?

Step 2: ASK

Step 1: READ

For example:

Read the paragraph

The RAP strategy helps build reading comprehension by asking you to paraphrase what you read. This just means putting something in your own words!

Ask yourself: "What is the main idea of this paragraph? What are the supporting details?"

Hint: Look at the first sentence for the main idea

The Main idea:

Keplar studied the orbits of the planets.

A supporting detail:

He found the orbits were not round, but oval

In the early 1600’s, the German mathematician Johannes Keplar began studying the orbits of the planets. He discovered that the shapes of the orbits are not circular, but are elliptical. He also calculated that the sun is not at the center of the ellipse, but is offset from the center.

Another supporting detail:

He found that the sun was not in the middle, but off center

Put in my own words:

"The main idea is that Keplar studied the orbits of the planets. He found the orbit is not round, but oval and the sun is not the middle, but offset from the center."

Step 3: PUT

All together that's:

Now is the fun part: Put the main idea and details in your own words!

Read

Ask

Put

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