Summarizing fiction

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Summary of the passage about ants:

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Ants are hard workers.

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In SWBST what does the first S stand for?

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Somebody

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In SWBST what does the W stand for?

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Wanted

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In SWBST what does the B stand for?

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But

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In SWBST what does the second S stand for?

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So

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In SWBST what does the T stand for?

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Then

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What is a summary?

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a short explanation of a text

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When would you most likely summarize a book? Options: when you want to forget a book you've read, when you want to tell a friend your opinion of a book but not what it was about, when you want to tell a friend the gist or main ideas of a book, when you don't understand a vocabulary word you read in a book

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when you want to tell a friend the gist or main ideas of a book

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How should you write your summary?

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In your own words with complete sentences.

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Who is the main character in Cinderella?

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Cinderella