After explicit instruction of summarization, a fourth-grade student is having difficulty writing a summary of a piece of informational text. Which of the following instructional strategies will best help the student?

While highlighting can help students identify key vocabulary and intriguing details, it does not directly teach them how to summarize the main ideas of the text. This strategy may lead to an accumulation of information without fostering the synthesis needed for effective summarization.

Prompts can guide students towards recognizing important topics, but without structured support like sentence frames, students may struggle to connect these topics cohesively in a summary. This approach lacks the specific scaffolding that sentence frames provide, which can lead to incomplete or poorly organized summaries.

Using a Venn diagram is a useful strategy for developing comparison skills, but it may not directly assist a student in summarizing a single piece of text. This method focuses on analysis rather than the synthesis required to write a concise summary, potentially confusing students who are already having difficulty with summarization.