Summarizing

Which best describes a summary?

• a really long detailed piece of writing

• the entire text told in your own words

• a dumb thing that teachers make you write

• the main ideas and important details of a text

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.9

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

Which one of the following is NOT a part of a summary?

• using your own words

• the summary has to be shorter than the text

• copy the exact words from the text

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.9

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

A summary...

• must be really long

• must be really long

• has to be copied straight from the book

• must be in your own words

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.9

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

When you summarize a book, you must

• include only important ideas.

• Include both important and interesting ideas.

• include only interesting information

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.9

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

Summaries help me...

• Understand what I'm reading

• Include the key points of a text

• Write about what I read

• All of the above

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.9

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

When writing a summary, it is okay to include any opinions or background knowledge you have on the topic.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.9

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

You should write your summary

• in your own words with complete sentences

• in a secret language that you make up

• in one draft without revising

• in fragments without punctuation

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.9

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

When summarizing a story you must include...

• Everything that happened

• The most important information

• An Inference

• My background knowledge

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.9

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

What does a summary do?

• Tells everything that happened in the text

• Explains an educated guess about what the text might be about

• States an opinion about the text

• Tells about the important information or key points in an easy to read way

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.9

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.6.2

Plot is the series of events that happen in a story.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.3.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5