Summarizing Nonfiction

What is nonfiction?

• truth

• something someone makes up

Click the example that IS NOT nonfiction.

• newspaper articles

• magazine articles

• science textbook

• blog

What strategy should you use when writing a summary?

• act like an airline pilot

• stare at the wall

• hope that something gets written

• act like a reporter

All nonfiction summary contents should be....

• subjective

• objective

• lame

• ridiculously funny

When you write to inform, persuade, entertain, compare and contrast, or demonstrate, this is known as ......

• the author's purpose

• confusing

• figurative language

• latin roots

You should look for any key words or phrases in the text to use in your summary. Which would be an example a key word or phrase?

• title

• author

• headings

• main idea

The ______ _______ is the main point of each paragraph or section of the text.

When typing the title of a textbook, magazine, movie, album, or newspaper, you should ________ the name.

• italicize

• underline

• highlight

• underline

If you hand write a title of a newspaper, book, movie, album, or magazine, you _______ it.

• italicize

• italicize

• underline

• bold

Quotation marks go around which of the following titles?

• titles of books

• titles of articles

• titles of magazines

• titles of albums