When you summarize, you take a text

• and make it briefer and more concise, telling the most important details.

• and elaborate on it and make it longer, filling in details.

• and change the seasons to summer.

• you take a text and ADD details to it to improve upon it.

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To summarize Amada's friendship with Michi ->

• They meet in a park and exchange rocks with each other, telling each other that they will never forget each other. They met when they were 4 years old in pre-school. They would braid each others' hair.

• They were best friends with each other.

• They don't care for each other, but are distant cousins.

• Amada gets jealous when Michi talks to Miguel. She wonders if her best friend is going to talk to that boy. This makes her so mad.

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When you make a summary you should:

• try to elaborate

• try to be proactive

• try to be safe

• try to be concise.

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When you are concise, you

• take forever to give others information.

• get to the point quickly.

• are longwinded and bore others.

• are beautiful and trustworthy.

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Which answer best summarizes Frozen?

• In the cold mountains of Arendell, there was an ice farmer boy named Kristoff. He had a friend named Sven who was a reindeer. They were sawing ice and then heading out from the frozen lake.

• Elsa, a princess with a magical curse, turns Arendell to winter and is horrified, fleeing to an ice castle. Her sister Anna meets Kristoff and Sven and a snowman named Olaf and ends up saving her sister from the evil Prince Hans.

• Frozen is based off of Hans Christian Andersen's story of a snow queen and her sister. Hans Christian Andersen wrote the story in the late 1800s.

• Frozen is the story of an ogre who lives in a swamp. One day a donkey shows up. The ogre is angry because fairy tale creatures are invading his swamp. "Donkey, you're not wanted here," the Ogre snapped.

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Which sentence best SUMMARIZES "Coyote and Badger"

• In Chaco Canyon there is little rain. Coyote and Badger hunt together successfully. Then Badger's pup dies, but the rains come and life goes on.

• It was dusty in Chaco Canyon. There was no rain in the old pueblos. Coyote sniffed the air. Coyote didn't return with prey. But then Coyote smelled Badger.

• Coyote and Badger is the story about Ten Coyotes and what happens when they walk across Chaco Canyon together. Awooo!

• In Chaco Canyon all was peaceful. Then a bomb went off. The village was under attack! Coyote hid with his father in a bush - but it wasn't his father - it was Badger!

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In your Winter Break letter, you practiced __________ by telling me the most important things that you did or happened to you over Winter break.

• summarizing

• re-enacting

• imagining

• creating

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A good summary includes

• every detail that happened in a story.

• only the most important and relevant details.

• names and birthdates of all persons involved.

• the setting of where the story takes place.

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My baby brother pointed at our dog and said "Cat!" He couldn't understand why we were laughing. <- why does this person say "baby brother"?

• They shouldn't. It's irrelevant.

• It's important - the brother being a baby makes the story make sense and be slightly funny.

• It's important - only a boy would look at a dog and say cat.

• They were just trying to be funny by calling an older brother a baby.

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Why is it important to know how to summarize a story or something that happened to you?

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