Summarizing Informational Text

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Which of the following statements is true about SUMMARIZING?

• A summary should include many story details.
• A summary is always found in the first sentence of a paragraph or chapter.
• A summary should always be fiction.
• A summary is what the passage is mostly about.

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A summary is what the passage is mostly about.

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What is a summary?

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The main or most important idea of the text

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What is the main idea?

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A brief statement that you create which shows/reflects what a nonfiction text is mainly talking about.

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What is a summary?

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A short paragraph that you create which includes the main idea of the text and some key important details.

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What is a key detail?

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An important point in the text that can help us find the main idea

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What is central idea?

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what the author is saying about the topic

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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