Summarizing

Summarizing

A summary is what a passage or story is mostly about.

Open Ended

If you own words, what is Because of Winn-Dixie mostly about?

When and why do we summarize stories?

When and Why we summarize

• To tell someone the gist or main idea of a story

Multiple Choice

When would you most likely summarize a book?

• to tell someone the gist or main idea of a story

• when you want to forget a book you've read

• when you don't understand a vocabulary word you've read in a book

• when you want to share your opinion of a book

A good Summary should include:

• Somebody... Who is the main character or characters

• What happened? What is the main event?

• But.... What was the problem?

• Then...How was the problem solved?

• How does the story end?

A good summary includes the main events in the story...

• Beginning

• Middle

• End

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Multiple Choice

Read the following passage and then answer the question.

There are five teams of students in the fifth grade. The blue team has math first period, and the red team has science. The yellow team gets to go outside early in the morning, while the green team goes to music. Only students on the orange team get to play games first period. Each student wears a nametag with his or her color, so that the teachers and students all know where a student should be.

• Students are organized by teams with color names .

• Students wear nametags.

• The yellow team has the best schedule.

• The blue team has math first

Multiple Choice

Jose carefully poured out the bag of marbles on his bed. He picked his ten favorite marbles and carefully set them to the side. Then he got out a small bag from his top drawer, and put the ten marbles inside. Just to make sure he wouldn't forget them, he placed the bag of marbles in his backpack. Jose loved show and tell, and he was excited that he would get to show his class some of his favorite marbles.

• Jose had lots of marbles.

• Jose would rather play marbles than play baseball

• Jose placed the bag of marbles in his backpack.

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

Multiple Choice

Eliza loved playing deep in the woods behind her home. One afternoon she got caught up in her make believe play, that she stayed out much longer than she should have. She just stayed out long enough to see the sun set. Before she knew it she had gotten lost and wasn't sure which way home was.

What happened first in the story?

• Elisa was scared because she was alone

• Elisa stayed out much longer than she should have

• Elisa tried to find her way home