Summarize Informational Text

Summarizing an informational text

Summarizing is retelling a passage in your own words using the most important details.

What does it look like?

• Summaries include the topic & main idea and important details of what has been read.

• Summaries are brief, do not contain opinions, and organize details in order of importance.

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Summaries include the topic and main idea and

of what has been read.

Multiple Choice

Based on this text, is the detail below relevant or irrelevant?

Our society is in the middle of a bionic revolution.

• Relevant detail

• Irrelevant detail

Multiple Choice

Based on this text, is the detail below relevant or irrelevant?

Cochlear implants are put directly in the auditory nerve.

• Relevant detail

• Irrelevant detail

Multiple Choice

Based on this text, is the detail below relevant or irrelevant?

Most people don’t know what medical implants do.

• Relevant detail

• Irrelevant detail

You summarize all the time.

• For example, you “make a long story short” when you sum up what happened on a TV show for a friend.

• When readers summarize, they organize the topic and important details of a text to make a short statement in their own words.