Summaries for Informational Texts

What are informational texts?

• Passages that persuade your audience

• Passages that are stories, dramas, or poems

• Passages that explain or inform

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CCSS.RI.5.10

What is an central idea?

• To come to a reasonable conclusion based on evidence found in the passage

• To have this directly stated in a passage as support

• The most important point or idea that the author is making in a passage

• An overview of a passage that captures the main points but does not give every detail and does not include opinions

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CCSS.RI.5.2

What is an objective summary?

• To come to a reasonable conclusion based on evidence found in the passage

• To have this directly stated in a passage as support

• The most important point or idea that the author is making in a passage

• An overview of a passage that captures the main points but does not give every detail and does not include opinions

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CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.SL.5.2

CCSS.W.5.8

What is the first step to writing a summary?

• putting things in your own words

• reading the text

• underlining key information

• get rid of extra information

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CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.W.5.8

The following passage is about the Trans-Siberian Railway, a long railway that crosses Russia. Select the best evidence to support the statement that the train has fewer tourists in the winter than the summer.

Whether you make it all the way across the country, or just a short distance, a trip on the trans-Siberian train is one of the most exciting things to do in Russia and a wonderful way to reach the least explored places.. . .

You can have a great experience at any time of the year. Most travelers go in the summer to see the flowering nature and easily explore the towns along the way. However, winter offers its own adventure, with . . . magnificent views of endless white. In winter, the trains are warm.

• Whether you make it all the way across the country, or just a short distance, a trip on the trans-Siberian train is one of the most exciting things to do in Russia and a wonderful way to reach the least explored places

• Most travelers go in the summer to see the flowering nature and easily explore the towns along the way.

• However, winter offers its own adventure, with . . . magnificent views of endless white.

• In winter, the trains are warm

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CCSS.RI.5.8

CCSS.W.5.9A

Select the best evidence to support the statement that in the late 1800s, a law made it easier for magazine companies to do business.

• At the turn of the twentieth century, short stories were a preferred form of entertainment in the United States.

• This was a boom time for magazine publishing, owing in part to developments in offset printing technology as well as to the Postal Act of 1879, which had granted magazines discounted mailing rates.

• Publications such as Ladies' Home Journal, The Saturday Evening Post, and The Delineator, all of which published short stories, sold more than a half million copies per issue.

• The authors of these stories were well known at the time and often well paid.

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CCSS.RI.5.8

Select the best evidence to support the statement that dolphins use their blowholes for breathing.

• When a whale surfaces, it spouts a "blow" of water vapor.

• When they come to the surface, they breathe air through an opening on top of their heads called a blowhole.

• Dolphins and porpoises are smaller, toothed whales.

• Larger whales such as the blue whale have a comblike strainer made of baleen, or whalebone, in their mouths instead of teeth..

• All whales are mammals.

When summarizing a story you must include...

• Everything that happened
• The most significant information
• An Inference
• My background knowledge

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CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.SL.5.2

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.

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CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.SL.5.2

A summary should be written in your own words.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RI.5.2

CCSS.SL.5.2

CCSS.W.5.8