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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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What are the two things you include in a summary? 

• Main idea and important information 
• Main idea and introductory sentence
• Main idea and conclusion 
• first sentence and last sentence

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The faculty at Newtown Elementary School invites you to attend our annual Honors Dinner on Thursday, June 17, 2005, in the school cafeteria.
A meal will be served at 7:00 P.M. The cost of the meal is $7.50 per person. Please respond by June 5th with the number of family members attending. We look forward to seeing you there.
Which of the following is the best summary of the invitation?

• The teachers at school are having a dinner to which you are invited. It will be at 7 P.M. on June 17 and will cost $7.50 a person.
• Students need to decide if they want to go to the Honors Dinner with their teachers and family at Newtown Elementary School.
• Newtown Elementary School is going to have an Honors Dinner. The teachers hold this dinner once a year for all of the honors students.
• The dinner costs $7.50 a person. You need to let the teachers know by June 5 how many people you are bringing to the dinner.

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Which of the following is NOT included in a summary?

• beginning, middle, and end
• specific details from the passage

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When some people think about Texas, they think of cowboys on the open range-herding cattle up a dusty trail. However, Texas has much more than open prairie with large herds of cows. There are the mountains of West Texas, the piney hills of east Texas, and the emerald waters off the coast of Padre Island. Texas also has large coastal harbors with numerous sailboats, powerboats, inland lakes, rivers, swamps of southeast Texas with alligators and other exotic wildlife.
The Summary of this passage is:

• There are a lot of cows in Texas.
• There are many different, varied parts of Texas.
•  Texas is one of the biggest states in the United States.
•  There are alligators in the swampland of southeast Texas.

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Which of the following statements best describes how to paraphrase information?    

• Copy the sentence and then put it in quotations.
• Copy the sentence, put it in quotations, and cite the source.
•  Determine key words in the sentence and replace one of two of them with words that have similar meanings. 
• Determine key words in the sentence and replace most of them with words that have similar meanings.  Rewrite the sentence in your own words.

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What word means, "to give a brief statement of the main points of (something)"?

• related

• purpose

• summarize

• contradict

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What is the best summary of the quote?

• Words are powerful.

• Words, in my opinion, are a great source of magic.

• Words can cause injury, and fix problems. They are magical.

• Words.

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Edward said, ‘I spoke to your friend Ellie last night.’

• Edward said that he had spoken to my friend Ellie the following night.

• Edward said that he had spoken to your friend Ellie the previous night.

• Edward said that he had spoken to your friend Ellie the following night.

• Edward said that he had spoken to my friend Ellie the previous night.

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A restatement of an author’s words in your own words is called __________________________.

• summarizing

• paraphrasing

• tone

• mood

• reflecting

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