Summarizing

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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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What should a summary do?

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

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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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What can you summarize?

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anything you read or watch

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How are students organized in the fifth grade according to the passage?

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Students are organized by teams with color names.

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What is the main idea of the passage about Frank's room?

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Frank's room was a mess.

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Read the following passage and then answer the question.
Math didn't make much sense to Cathy. She always got area and perimeter mixed up and she had no idea what a right angle was. Last quarter she failed math, and this quarter wasn't any better. As long as she could remember, math had been hard for Cathy. She did fine in reading and science, but not math. Now she was working on her math homework, but she didn't know how to do most of it. Who invented math, anyway!

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Cathy was not very good at math.

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What was Jose doing with his marbles?

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Jose was getting his favorite marbles ready to take to school for show and tell.

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What does Jacob prefer about his baths?

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Jacob likes to take fast baths.