Summarizing

What is the definition of summarizing?

• to give a brief statement of the main points of something

• to retell the entire story

• to name the title of the story

• to list the characters of the story

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

What questions do we answer to fully summarize a story?

• Who?

• What?

• When?

• Where?

• Why?

When summarizing a story, your summary will be ____ than the actual length of the story.

• shorter

• longer

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.SL.3.2

CCSS.W.3.2A

What is the first step in summarizing a story?

• Reading the passage and understanding the story

• Guessing what the story is about based on the title

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.SL.3.2

True or False:

The summary is always found in the first sentence of the passage

• True

• False

What can you summarize?

Evaluate responses using AI:

OFF

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.SL.3.2

Which of the options below is a summary?

• a short retell of a story

• a movie based off a book

• the first chapter of a book

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

When summarizing, we want to _________ unimportant information

• summarize

• highlight

• ignore

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.SL.3.2

Summaries help me...

• understand what I am reading

• write about what I read

• include the main idea of the story

• all of the above

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RL.3.2

CCSS.SL.3.2

CCSS.W.3.2A

True or False:

I can summarize any book, movie, or passage of a story.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RI.3.1

CCSS.RI.3.2

CCSS.RL.3.1

CCSS.RL.3.2