Summarizing

When summarizing a story, you must include...

• Everything that happened

• An inference

• The most significant information

• My background knowledge

Summaries help me...

• understand what I'm reading

• identify the main points of a text

• write about what I read

• all of these

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.

Which of the following statements about summarizing is false?

• The summary is what the passage is mostly about.

• The summary is usually found in more than just one sentence of the passage.

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

• The summary is one isolated thought in a passage.

A summary should be written in your own words.

• True

• False

You should only include the main events or ideas from the passage when writing a summary.

• True

• False

A summary does what?

• Nothing.

• Makes an educated guess

• Tells an opinion

• Explains a text with important information and key points.

Which of the follow is NOT something you should include in a summary?

• Your own words

• Exact words from the text

• Less information than is in the original text

• Main ideas (only!)

Which best describes a summary?

• A really long detailed piece of writing.

• A single sentence.

• A useless thing that teachers make you write.

• The main ideas and important details of a text.

When summarizing, you should never include...

• Central ideas

• Important supporting details that go with the central ideas

• Your opinion

• The title, author, and type of text.