Reading: Summary #1

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What is the best summary for the paragraph: Tyrone really wanted an adventure. He borrowed his friend's bike and explored the world. He saw many amazing things and had a lot of fun. Tyrone was so glad he went on his trip?

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Tyrone went on a fun bike adventure.

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What is the best summary for the paragraph about Jayelle's birthday party?

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Jayelle had a birthday party with her friends.

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The Summary of this passage is:

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Students are organized by teams with color names .

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Why do we summarize?

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to make it simple and easy to understand

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What was the name of the dwarf Lisa could not remember?

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Lisa could not remember the name of one of the dwarfs.

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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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You should write your summary

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in your own words with complete sentences

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Which of the following statements about SUMMARIZING is false? Options:  The Summary is what the passage is mostly about., The Summary is what all or most of the sentences or paragraphs are about., The Summary is usually found in more than just one sentence of the passage, The Summary is one isolated thought in a passage.

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The Summary is one isolated thought in a passage.

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What is the summary of the passage about Jill's birthday dinner choices? Options: Jill has many restaurants to choose from for her birthday.,  Jill loves Mexican food., The Pizza Shop has the best pizza in town.,  Jill will choose a place by flipping a coin.

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Jill has many restaurants to choose from for her birthday.

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The Summary of this passage is: Duvann had lots of marbles. Duvann was getting his favorite marbles ready to take to school for show and tell. Duvann would rather play marbles than play baseball. Duvann placed the bag of marbles in his backpack.

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