Summary of a Story

Summary - Fiction

Multiple Choice

What are we focusing on in class today?

• non-fiction

• summary

• writing sentences

Fill in the Blank

Key details are the ______________ events from the story.

Multiple Select

Which of these are key details of a story? (Click ALL that apply)

• What the story is mostly about

• Who is in the story

• What happens in the story

• Where the story takes place

Open Ended

Tell me about your morning routine. Write three things you do EVERY morning. Make sure you write them in the correct SEQUENCE.

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

Why is this not a summary of Finding Nemo?

Finding Nemo is my favorite movie. I loved the ending of Finding Nemo, when Nemo was reunited with his dad. Dory is my favorite character. She is hilarious! I asked my mom for a fish. If I get one, I will name it Dory.

Multiple Choice

Turn over a bag of potato chips. Is the label interesting? A simple food recipe may use several ingredients. These come from the soil and from chemistry labs around the world. Surprises also show up in the labels on clothing and other products. Look at the label on a package of lipstick. The tube seems small and shiny, but inside lipstick there is soap, oil, fish scales, and wax!

• A bag of potato chips seems like a simple recipe. There are many ingredients from the soil and from chemistry labs.

• Clothes and other products have many ingredients as well. Lipstick alone has soap, oil, wax, and fish scales.

• Labels show what goes into food, clothing, and other products. A simple product may have many ingredients.

Multiple Choice

When some people think about Texas, they think of cowboys on the open range-herding cattle up a dusty trail. However, Texas has much more than open prairie with large herds of cows. There are the mountains of West Texas, the piney hills of east Texas, and the emerald waters off the coast of Padre Island. Texas also has large coastal harbors with numerous sailboats, powerboats, inland lakes, rivers, swamps of southeast Texas with alligators and other exotic wildlife.

The Summary of this passage is:

• There are a lot of cows in Texas.

• There are many different, varied parts of Texas.

• Texas is one of the biggest states in the United States.

Multiple Choice

Tomorrow is Jill's birthday. She is excited because she gets to pick where she will eat dinner. Will it be Mexican food at the Big Enchilada House? Or will it be fried chicken at the Chicken Shack, or a big cheeseburger at Al's Hamburger Palace. She just couldn't decide. Then there was always the Pizza Shop with that great pepperoni pizza. How would she ever decide? Maybe she would just flip a coin.

The Summary of this passage is:

• Jill has many restaurants to choose from for her birthday.

• The Pizza Shop has the best pizza in town.

• Jill loves Mexican food.

Open Ended

Read the text below:

A fox was walking through the forest when he saw a crow sitting on a tree branch with a ne piece of cheese in her beak. The fox wanted the cheese and decided he would be clever enough to outwit the bird. “What a noble and gracious bird I see in the tree!” proclaimed the fox, “What exquisite beauty! What fair plumage! If her voice is as lovely as her beauty, she would no doubt be the jewel of all birds!” The crow was so attered by all this talk that she opened her beak and gave a cry to show the fox her voice. “Caw! Caw!” she cried, as the cheese dropped to the ground for the fox to grab.

Write a SUMMARY of the text. (Use your own words. Key details. Sequence. No Opinions.)