Summarizing Practice

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According to the passage, why are you building critical-thinking skills when you summarize?

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because you’re evaluating the text to decide what’s most important

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Based on the passage, reading only the first paragraph of a newspaper article would:

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give a reader the main ideas of a current event.

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What is a summary? Options: a short explanation of a text, a persuasive argument about a text, a movie based off of a book, a theme or universal lesson

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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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What should a summary do?

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Answer the 5 W’s: who, what, when, where, and why.

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Which question should you definitely answer in a summary of the novel My Funny Friend Fiona? Options: What’s Fiona’s neighbor’s favorite color?, What happens to Fiona?, Is My Funny Friend Fiona a boring book?, How long did it take you to read My Funny Friend Fiona?

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What happens to Fiona?

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What detail should be cut from the following summary of My Funny Friend Fiona?

My Funny Friend Fiona is a novel about a girl named Fiona. It’s really quick to read, and you should read it because it’s the funniest book in the world.
Options: the name of the main character, the title of the book, the fact that the book is a novel, the opinion that it's the "funniest book in the world"

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the opinion that it's the "funniest book in the world"

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When should you write a draft of your summary? Options: immediately after reading the text for the first time, before coding the text, before re-reading sections you didn’t understand, after you’ve read the text, coded it and re-read any sections you didn’t understand

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after you’ve read the text, coded it and re-read any sections you didn’t understand

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Which of the following is an example of coding while you read? Options: looking a word up in the dictionary, putting an exclamation mark next to surprising or new information, drawing a picture of your kitten in the blank space at the end of a chapter, re-reading the same page 10-15 times

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putting an exclamation mark next to surprising or new information

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How should you write your summary? Options: in your own words with complete sentences, in a secret language that you make up, in one draft without revising, in fragments without punctuation.

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in your own words with complete sentences.