Summary

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What is a summary?

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a short explanation of a text

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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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Summarizing is a retelling in your own words, a short version of the main ideas, events and details.

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True

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Summary of passage: Tomorrow is Jill's birthday. She is excited because she gets to pick where she will eat dinner. Will it be Mexican food at the Big Enchilada House? Or will it be fried chicken at the Chicken Shack, or a big cheeseburger at Al's Hamburger Palace. She just couldn't decide. Then there was always the Pizza Shop with that great pepperoni pizza. How would she ever decide? Maybe she would just flip a coin.

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Jill has many restaurants to choose from for her birthday.

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Summary of passage: Right now Jason was playing right field. He really wanted to play third base. Earlier this year, coach had put him in left field and second base in a game, but never at third base. Once in practice, coach let him play third base, but he kept missing ground balls. When he did stop one, he made a bad throw to first base. Maybe if he kept practicing, Jason would be good enough to play third base. That was his dream.

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Jason really wanted to play third base.

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Summary of the passage about San Francisco's weather.

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The weather in San Francisco is generally very mild.

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When writing a summary for an informational text, what is a good thing to consider?

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details and facts

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What is the difference between retelling and summarizing?

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A retell is telling about all the events while a summary only talks about main ideas.