Summary Practice

What is a summary?

• a short explanation of a text

• a persuasive argument about a text

• a movie based off of a book

• a theme or universal lesson

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A summary should

• answer the 5 W’s: who, what, when, where and why.

• describe the details but not the main ideas.

• never mention the plot of the text.

• always mention the age of the author.

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Summarizing is a retelling in your own words, a short version of the main ideas, events and details.

• True
• False

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Which of the following statements is true about SUMMARIZING?

• A summary  should include many story details.
• A summary is always found in the first sentence of a paragraph or chapter.
• A summary should always be fiction.
• A summary is what the passage is mostly about.

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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

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Read the following passage and then answer the question.
There are five teams of students in the fifth grade. The blue team has math first period, and the red team has science. The yellow team gets to go outside early in the morning, while the green team goes to music. Only students on the orange team get to play games first period. Each student wears a nametag with his or her color, so that the teachers and students all know where a student should be.

• Students are organized by teams with color names .
• The blue team has math first.
• Students wear nametags.
• The yellow team has the best schedule.

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Read the following passage and then answer the question.
Books lay in the middle of his floor. Several broken toys were shoved halfway under the bed, and dirty clothes were everywhere. Frank's parents kept telling him to clean his room, but it never seemed to get clean. In fact, if Frank did manage to clean part of it, the rest of the room just got messier. In one corner of the room was an old peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and an open bag of potato chips was thrown on the dresser.

• Frank's room was a mess.
• A peanut butter and jelly sandwich was in one corner of the room.
• Frank liked potato chips.
• Frank got in big trouble because his room was not clean.

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Bonnie wanted to get out of taking her test in science. She asked to use the restroom. As she wandered along the hall, the shiny red fire alarm called her name. Bonnie knew it was wrong - like she could be in big, bad trouble wrong - but she pulled the alarm anyway. Green spray came out all over her arms as she began to run away. As teachers and students exited the building, the science teacher saw Bonnie's arms. The teacher immediately delivered Bonnie to the principal who thought the emergency was real. Bonnie knew she was in big, bad trouble and still not out of her science test.

• A) Bonnie did not study for her science test so she made a plan to hide out in the restroom during class.

• B) Bonnie wanted out of a science test so she pulled the alarm, but she got caught and would be in big, bad trouble.

• C) Bonnie hated tests so she decided to skip school instead of going to class that day.

• D) Bonnie, on the way to the restroom, wondered what would happen if the fire alarm were pulled, so she pulled it.

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Read the story. You can use the magnifying tool to make it larger!

Which answer is the best summary of the story?

• Ron and Don wanted to do something really special for their mom’s birthday, but they didn’t have any money. The two sons decided to present their mom with five scenes from some of her favorite plays. She loved the gift!

• Ron and Don wanted to do something really special for their mom’s birthday, but they were lazy and didn’t earn any money. The two sons decided to present their mom with five scenes from some of her favorite plays.

• Ron and Don wanted to do something really special for their mom’s birthday, but they didn’t have any money. The two sons decided to present their mom with five scenes from some of her favorite plays. The found some plays at the library and spent a lot of time practicing scenes and making props. They even made their own costumes! Their mom really loved their performance.

• Ron and Don wanted to do something really special for their mom’s birthday, but they only had a little bit of money to spend on a gift. The two sons decided to present their mom with five scenes from some of her favorite plays. She loved the gift!

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