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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What detail should be cut from the following summary? 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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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? Options: only novels, only nonfiction, only movies, anything you read or watch

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anything you read or watch

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D

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C

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B

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