When summarizing a story you must include...

The most significant information

include the key points of a text

Read the following passage and then answer the question. The Elk River flows from the far northern part of the state all the way to the southern tip. All kinds of animals rely on it for drinking water, people eat the fish they catch in it, and farmers in the state depend on it for irrigating their crops. Since there is very little rain in this state, the Elk River gives animals and humans the water they need to stay alive. Even though the river is not nearly the biggest in the nation, it is very important to the people and animals that live near it.

The Elk River is very important to people and animals.

The Elk River is a small river.

The Elk River starts in the northern part of the state.

People catch fish in the Elk River.

What is the difference between retelling and summarizing?

A retell is telling about all the events while a summary only talks about main ideas.

A summary is a long detailed paragraph and a retell is not.

Retelling and summarizing are the same thing.

Retelling is a word used for little kids and summarizing is used for big kids.

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 will choose a place by flipping a coin.

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 many different, varied parts of Texas.

There are a lot of cows in Texas.

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

There are alligators in the swampland of southeast Texas.

It started when they got to the bears. Peter felt tired and his stomach hurt. He dragged himself over to see the elephants, which were eating from a stack of hay. Normally, the elephants were his favorite. Without much interest, Peter followed his classmates to the camels, which were busy swatting flies with their tails. Peter knew he should be having fun at the zoo, but he just felt terrible and all he wanted to do was lie down and rest. Even the lions and tigers did not interest him now. The Summary of this passage is:

Peter didn't enjoy the zoo because he felt really bad.

Peter's favorite animals were the elephants.

The camels were swatting flies with their tails.

Right now Jason was playing right field. He really wanted to play third base. Earlier this year, coach had put him in left field and second base in a game, but never at third base. Once in practice, coach let him play third base, but he kept missing ground balls. When he did stop one, he made a bad throw to first base. Maybe if he kept practicing, Jason would be good enough to play third base. That was his dream. The Summary of this passage is:

Jason really wanted to play third base.

Jason was the best player on his team.

Jason had trouble catching ground balls.

Jason was too lazy to practice.

For the walls, Jenny thought she would use a bright yellow paint. She would pick a border that had mostly bright red and green colors, and maybe a little bit of blue. She already had found some curtains that were sky blue with streaks of red, blue and yellow that she thought would go great with the walls. And finally, she had picked a carpet that was mostly blue with specks of red and yellow. Jenny couldn't wait till she was done decorating her room. It was really going to look awesome. The Summary of this passage is:

Jenny was picking out colors and materials to decorate her room.

Jenny was going to paint her room.

Yellow is a good color to paint your walls.

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Which one of the following is NOT a part of a summary?

using your own words

summary being shorter than the text

exact words from the text

including main ideas only

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RI.4.9

CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Which best describes a summary?

a really long detailed piece of writing

the entire text told in your own words

a dumb thing that teachers make you write

the main ideas and important details of a text

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Which of the following statements about SUMMARIZING is true?

The Summary is a thought that is true but is not in the passage.

The Summary is what the passage is mostly about.

The Summary is specific, detailed information contained in the passage.

The Summary is always found in the first sentence of the passage.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Read the following passage and then answer the question.
Lisa knew all of the seven dwarfs except one. She remembered Grumpy, Sleepy and Bashful. And of course she couldn't forget Doc and Dopey. Dopey was her favorite. But there was one she just could not remember. Let's see. There's also Sneezy, and that's six. But she could not remember that last one. What was his name?

Dopey was Lisa's favorite dwarf.

Lisa could not remember the name of one of the dwarfs.

There were seven dwarfs in all.

Lisa had a good memory.

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CCSS.RI.4.1

CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.6.1

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

What can you summarize?

only novels

only nonfiction

only movies

anything you read or watch

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RI.4.9

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

You should write your summary

in your own words with complete sentences

in a secret language that you make up

in one draft without revising

in fragments without punctuation

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

2 mins • 1 pt

Which of the following statements about SUMMARIZING is false?

The Summary is what the passage is mostly about.

The Summary is what all or most of the sentences or paragraphs are about.

The Summary is usually found in more than just one sentence of the passage

The Summary is one isolated thought in a passage.

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summarize

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Which of the following statements about SUMMARIZING is true?

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You should write your summary

Which of the following statements about SUMMARIZING is false?

When summarizing a story you must include...

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