Summary Quiz

What is the purpose of a summary?

• To confuse the reader with irrelevant information

• To retell the main ideas in a shorter version

• To add more details to a passage

• To create a longer version of a story

What is the skill of summarizing similar to?

• Being a novelist

• Being a chef

• Being a poet

• Being a reporter

What are the important parts of The Three Little Pigs story?

• The market and the plots of land

• The names of the pigs and their middle school history

• The characters, their decisions, and the outcome

• The number of pigs and their houses

What happens to the first two houses in The Three Little Pigs story?

• They are successfully knocked down by the wolf

• They are left untouched by the wolf

• They are protected by the pigs

• They are blown away by a storm

What is the problem with the summary 'There were three pigs. They build houses. A big, bad wolf tried to get them.'?

• It doesn't provide enough information about the wolf

• It doesn't mention the names of the pigs

• It doesn't specify the outcome of the story

• It includes too many irrelevant facts

What is the problem with the summary 'So there were three pigs. One's name is Horace, another's name was Pansy, and the third's name was Flustopher, they had all been friends since middle school, and when the market was in a good place, all three of them decided to go in for plots of land right next to each other.'?

• It doesn't mention the names of the pigs

• It includes too many irrelevant facts

• It doesn't provide enough information about the wolf

• It doesn't specify the outcome of the story