A reader who is taking notes while reading texts and summarizing the information as she goes is using: prosody.

an effective reading strategy.

automaticity.

None of the choices are correct.

an effective reading strategy

quite an interesting way to teach topic sentences, because the answer to this question is the best definition of a topic sentence that one can present, it is as if answering the questions taught you how to do it, this is some real teaching, it is terribly well-done.

the topic sentence in this paragraph is:

topic sentences writers stay on track and keep a paragraph from becoming an aimless collection of sentences about an idea.

which incidentally tells you what a topic sentence should be.

a) madame podtochina used witchcraft to make it disappear.