Summarising texts

What is a summary?

• A restatement of a piece of writing that is both brief and written in your own words

• The reader's personal thoughts and opinions about the article and the author

• One long quote that uses all of the author's words exactly

• Just putting the main idea of an article into your own words

What should you be doing when you skim read for the first time a new article?

• Trying to understand what the article is about in general

• Writing your main idea sentence

• Looking for all of the key details

• Reading the article as fast as possible to get to the second reading

When we first read the abstract and the introduction, we

• underline important words and key words and then find their meaning

• do not care about unknown words

What do we use to help us form conclusions about difficult words or ideas?

• Context Clues

• Supporting Details

• Main Idea

What should you be doing during your "Second Reading" of a new article?

• Looking for the topic of the article, the who or what the article is about

• Underlining new thoughts that will become the supporting details

• Numbering your paragraphs

What is the definition of a main idea?

• The details that support what the text is about.

• The central idea of a text.

• The reader's opinion on a text.

Which questions can help determine the main idea? Select 2.

• What is the author's opinion of the topic?

• What is the author's background?

• What is the text about?

• What ideas in the text are most important?

Where do we usually find the main idea?

• In the topic

• In the middle of the paragraph

• In the topic sentence

What information will you include in your graphic organizer (outline)?

• The main idea and supporting details of the article

• Just the main idea of the article

• Just the supporting details of the article

• The main idea, supporting details, and your thoughts on the article

What format will your final product be in?

• Written in a graphic organizer

• Written in one sentence

• Written in the form of a text with paragraphs (introduction,main body, etc.)

• Written in a paragraph