Objective Summary Lesson

Objective Summary

Summing it up, Objectively!

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Check for Understanding:

What is our learning objective for today?

Check all that apply:

• Identify the central idea in an informational text and the important details that support the idea. Summarize an informational text by restating in one’s own words the central idea and important details.

• Provide an accurate and objective summary free of personal opinions or judgments.

Why do we need Objective Summaries?

Writing objective summaries can help you understand texts that you read and identify the most important information in the text.

What is an Objective Summary?

Short account of the central ideas of a text or story retold in your own words with essential information.

Objective Summaries only has facts!

Keep your opinions to yourself!!!

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Check for Understanding:

Which sentence is written objectively.

Check all that apply:

• Barack Obama is the first black President of the United States of America.

• When Obama became President, it was the biggest and most important election in the history of our country.

• Barack Obama graduated from Harvard University, the best college in America.

• Barack Obama was the 44th President of the United States of America.

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Define Central Idea.

• A clash between two opposing forces in text.

• What the text is about.

• The highest or most intense point in a narrative.

• The beginning of the story where the characters and setting are introduced.

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A text may have more than one central idea and that each paragraph or section has its own central idea.

True or False

• True

• False

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Your summary should only include main ideas and key points, not supporting details.

True or False

• True

• False

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A summary should also be ______, or free of any opinions or personal beliefs.

• Opinions

• Obvious

• Opinionated

• Objective

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Your summary should be________.

Check all that apply:

• Should be a complete sentence or two.

• Should cover main point and key ideas.

• Should be in your own words.

• Should just be a word or two.

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Which summaries are best fit for the Three Little Pigs? Choose all that apply. 

• The Three Little Pigs was about pigs who got attacked by a wolf, and learn the meaning of hard work. 

• The Three Little Pigs was dumb 

• The Three Little Pigs was pretty funny, especially when the wolf went down the chimney. 

• The story was mainly about pigs who go attacked and learn about hard work. 

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Choose the BEST Objective Summary

• A

• B

• C

• D

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Choose the BEST Objective Summary

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• B

• C

• D

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Choose the BEST Objective Summary

• A

• B

• C

• D

Multiple Choice

In this passage, which word is not relevant in a summary

• Ancient history

• sugarcane

• baking

• medicine

Multiple Choice

Which summary is NOT an objective summary for Mary had a Little Lamb

• Mary had a lamb that followed her to school and got kicked out.

• Mary had a little lamb that followed her everywhere, even school.

• Mary lamb was dumb because she follow her to school.

• Mary and her little lamb, but her lamb got kicked out of school.

Multiple Choice

Which word would you NOT want to include in a summary of this passage

• calling

• bath

• horror

• follow

Multiple Choice

Which is he BEST summary of the passage

• A

• B

• C

• D

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Which question would you need to answer in this summary? Choose ALL that apply

• Where did Maureen go?

• Why did Maureen call her dad?

• What is Maureen's Dad's name?

• When did Maureen go to ice skate?

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Which summaries fit the story? Choose ALL that apply

• Quinn went her friend's sleepover and had fun. But, she then wanted to leave, so she went home.

• Quinn went to a sleepover and ate popcorn and played, but she left during it.

• Quinn went to her dumb friend's sleepover and did nothing.

• Quinn wet to a sleepover