Inferring and Summarizing

​Summarizing and Inferencing

RL5.1 and RL5.2

Multiple Choice

What is a summary?

• The beginning and end

• a brief statement or account of the main points of something

• The characters and the setting

• The theme of a story

Multiple Choice

A Written summary should include minor details from the book.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

The order of events don't matter when I'm writing a summary.

• True

• False

​What is a summary?

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Imagine you were telling someone about a movie you just watched A summary would include JUST the IMPORTANT parts of the book or movie you are sharing about!​

What is something that needs to be included in the summary of a story?​

• ​Setting

• Characters

• Problem (another word??)

• solution

• main events- beginning, middle, and end

• SWBST​

Subject | Subject

Some text here about the topic of discussion

​Remember....

Summaries DO NOT contain your opinion! Stick to the facts from the story or passage!

Multiple Choice

Read the summary:

Nemo was captured and forced to live in a tank. He worked with the other fish in the fish tank to escape. Nemo was able to make it back to the ocean and find his dad. They returned home and lived a happy life.

This summary is missing key details from which part of the story?

• beginning

• middle

• end

Open Ended

Write a summary of the story in the picture.

​Inferencing!!

Multiple Choice

Which answer choice best defines Inference?

• Characteristics, facts

• Information or proof directly from the text

• Information that you provide from outside of the text

• Using what you already know and what you learn from the text to make a guess

Multiple Choice

Which answer choice defines Text Evidence?

• Information or proof directly from the text

• Using what you know and what the text says to make a guess

• Information that you provide from outside of the text

Multiple Choice

What is another way to say "background knowledge?"

• understanding

• prior knowledge

• math knowledge

• Inferencing