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

Tags

CCSS.RI.1.5

CCSS.RI.2.5

CCSS.RI.3.5

CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

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

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.4.9

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RI.6.2

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.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.4.2

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RI.2.1

CCSS.RL.2.1

When summarizing a story you must include...

• Everything that happened

• The most important information

• An Inference

• My background knowledge

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.

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.4.9

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

A summary should be written in your own words.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.4.9

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

You should only include the main events or ideas from the passage when writing a summary.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.4.9

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RI.6.2

A summary does what?

• nothing
• tells an opinion
• makes an educated guess
• is a shorter way to explain a text with important information or key points

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.4.9

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RI.6.2

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.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.4.9

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

When summarizing, you should NEVER include....

• central ideas

• your opinion

• important supporting details that go with the central ideas

• the title, author, and text type

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RI.4.9

CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RI.6.2