Summarizing Information Texts

RP 2C Lesson 2 Basic Summarizing

by Crystal Gammon

Multiple Choice

1. What is the setting?

2. Who are the main characters?

3. What is the problem?

4. What is the first event?

5. What is the second event?

6. What is the third event?

7. What is the ending?

8. Put these elements together to write a short summary.

• John Dolitte and his sister lived in a little town many years ago. People said he was the best doctor around until he had too many animals that kept his house dirty. One lady sat on a hedgehog and never saw the doctor again.

• A  lady and Doctor Dolitte's sister loved animals so much that they kept them all over the house.

• Dolittle enjoyed people more than animals. He never let animals into his home.

Multiple Choice

1. What is the setting?

2. Who are the main characters?

3. What is the problem?

4. What is the first event?

5. What is the second event?

6. What is the third event?

7. What is the ending?

8. Put these elements together to write a short summary.

• There was a queen and a king. The king became sick and the doctor didn't know how to help him.

• Long ago there was a King who lived in the sea. His wife, the Queen became sick and needed a special medicine made from the tail of a monkey.

• Once upon a time a king loved his queen until she became sick. Only a monkey's tail could save her.