Summarizing texts and themes of texts

Today we will be summarizing texts and stories!

​today's lesson: choose the best summary of the text.

Jake's Food Enemy

Jake loved superheroes. He often had dreams that he was one. He would fly around the giant food planet, saving chicken nuggets from dangerous ketchup avalanches, or carrots from ranch snowstorms. But there was one food behind the bad things. Broccoli! It didn't help that he was having broccoli tonight either. But there was one hope. Ranch to save the day! He gobbled down the broccoli with ranch! And the planet was saved!

Multiple Choice

Which is the best summary of the text?

• Jake was a boy who loved superheroes. He would dream about being a hero, saving food from the evil broccoli. He stopped broccoli with ranch.

• Jake likes superheroes

• Jake was a boy who didn't like broccoli. He used ranch to make it taste better.

• Jake was a boy that liked superheroes. He had dreams about being a superhero. He saved the town from food monsters.

be prepared for the next problem!

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That should've been easy!

A boy and his dog.

There once was a boy who loved his dog. The dog once went missing. The boy loved the dog so much that he put out a reward for whomever found him. The dog loved the boy so much that he decided to run to a stranger and show him his tag. The stranger brought the dog to the boy's home, and they all lived happily ever after.

Multiple Choice

What is the best summary of the text?

• A boy had a dog. He loved the dog. When the dog went missing, they both tried their hardest to get him back home.

• A dog and a boy loved each other. they went to go play one day. They went outside and played ball.

• A stranger brought a dog back to its home. He got reward money for doing so.

Multiple Choice

What is the theme of the text?

• Never give up, even in tough situations.

• If you love something, you'll try your best to get it back.

• Relationships can be damaged when one friend breaks another's trust.

• Strangers can be dangerous.

The butcher and the Pig

The town butcher went to the hunter one evening, asking if he could go hunt him some swine. The hunter had him follow him, so he could pick the one he wanted. It wasn't long till they had found the grazing area. The butcher saw one he wanted, but then he saw a bigger one. He told the hunter to shoot that one.

The butcher went to grab the pig, and payed the hunter. But when he got back to his shop, the meat on the pig was
diseased!

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Continued...

Multiple Choice

What is the theme of the story?

• Just because something is bigger, doesn't make it better.

• Be careful what you wish for.

• Treat others like you want to be treated.

• Arguing makes a problem worse.

thank you for doing my lesson!

Great job!