Summarizing & Paraphrasing Period 1

Summarizing & Paraphrasing

Let's take a moment to review summarizing and paraphrasing

Summarizing an Argument

• Identify the key argumentative claim

• Identify the key points (the most important) the author makes to support their claim

• Should only be 1-2 sentences long

• Use your own words

Why Do We Summarize?

Here are a couple of reasons why we summarize our texts and why they are important

Multiple Choice

What is a summary?

• A retelling of the important points in a text in your own words

• A statement of the author's opinion

• An educated guess about a topic, idea, or problem

• A shorter way to explain a text using only the key details that conveys the overall message

Multiple Choice

Which one of the following is NOT a part of a summary?

• using your own words

• summary being shorter than the text

• exact words from the text

• including main ideas or events only

Multiple Choice

Turn over a bag of potato chips. Is the label interesting? A simple food recipe may use several ingredients. These come from the soil and from chemistry labs around the world. Surprises also show up in the labels on clothing and other products. Look at the label on a package of lipstick. The tube seems small and shiny, but inside lipstick there is soap, oil, fish scales, and wax!

Which is the best way to summarize this passage?

• A bag of potato chips seems like a simple recipe. There are many ingredients from the soil and from chemistry labs.

• Clothes and other products have many ingredients as well. Lipstick alone has soap, oil, wax, and fish scales.

• Labels show what goes into food, clothing, and other products. A simple product may have many ingredients.

• Lipstick seems small and shiny. Look at the label sometime. It has at least four different ingredients.

Multiple Choice

When some people think about Texas, they think of cowboys on the open range-herding cattle up a dusty trail. However, Texas has much more than open prairie with large herds of cows. There are the mountains of West Texas, the piney hills of east Texas, and the emerald waters off the coast of Padre Island. Texas also has large coastal harbors with numerous sailboats, powerboats, inland lakes, rivers, swamps of southeast Texas with alligators and other exotic wildlife.

The Summary of this passage is:

• There are a lot of cows in Texas.

• There are many different, varied parts of Texas.

• Texas is one of the biggest states in the United States.

• There are alligators in the swampland of southeast Texas.

Multiple Choice

The first book Chris read in fifth grade was about a lost kitten. Then he read a book about a family of bears, and then he read about a wild kangaroo in Australia. It seems every book Chris reads is about animals. Last week he found a good book about snakes and reptiles, and another book about elephants. Today Chris went to the library, and he checked out a book about dolphins, whales and other animals that live in the sea.

The Summary of this passage is:

• Chris likes kangaroos.

• Chris is in the fifth grade.

• Chris reads a lot of books about animals.

• Dolphins and whales live in the sea.

Multiple Choice

What is the difference between paraphrasing and summarizing?

• A summary is a long detailed paragraph and a paraphrase is not.

• Paraphrasing restates all the events while a summary only talks about main ideas.

• Paraphrasing and summarizing are the same thing.

• Paraphrasing is a word used for little kids and summarizing is used for big kids.

Multiple Choice

“For some reason, cheese-topped donuts are quite popular in Indonesia, and in September 2013 KFC decided to get in on the action, offering a glazed donut topped with shredded Swiss and cheddar cheese.”

Which statement is the best paraphrase of the above passage?

• Cheese-topped donuts are popular in Indonesia. In September 2013, KFC decided to offer a glazed donut topped with shredded Swiss and cheddar cheese

• In 2013, a KFC in Indonesia began selling shredded Swiss and cheddar cheese topped glazed donuts, a treat that is popular in this Asian country.

Multiple Choice

Regardless of the debate over the origins of climate change, there's no disputing that the Earth has warmed considerably in recent years. And with this warming trend, the world's polar ice is melting rapidly, displacing the creatures that have long made these regions their habitat.

Which of the following options describes the underlined phrase?

• It suggests the author wants to discuss the debate over the origins of climate change.

• It suggests the author is agreeing that a debate exists before making a different point about climate change.

• It suggests that the author is going to challenge the belief that climate change is a serious problem.

Multiple Choice

Regardless of the debate over the origins of climate change, there's no disputing that the Earth has warmed considerably in recent years. And with this warming trend, the world's polar ice is melting rapidly, displacing the creatures that have long made these regions their habitat.

Which of the following options best paraphrases the above passage?

• Polar ice is melting at a record rate. Yet many people still insist that climate change is not the cause. What will it take to convince them, the disappearance of polar ice and with it all Arctic creatures?

• Temperatures have been warming over the last century, but the last few decades have seen the biggest increases. The result has been melting polar ice, which eventually will result in the loss of countless wonderful creatures such as polar bears.

• Although there is disagreement over what's causing the increases in Earth's temperatures, no one's arguing that the Earth isn't getting warmer. The worry is that increased temperatures will melt polar ice, leaving many creatures with no home and unable to survive.