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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.

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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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When would you most likely summarize a book?

• when you want to forget a book you've read
• when you want to tell a friend your opinion of a book but not what it was about
• when you want to tell a friend the gist or main ideas of a book
• when you don't understand a vocabulary word you read in a book

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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

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Crocodiles and Alligators are covered with scales and have backbones. They have short legs and long, powerful tails. Also, baby crocodiles and alligators both hatch from eggs.
Which is the best summary for this paragraph?

• Crocodiles live in the ocean.
• Alligators are stronger than crocodiles.
• Crocodiles and alligators are alike in many ways.
• They both eat eggs.

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Summaries help me...

• understand what I'm reading
• write about what I read
• include the key points of a text
• all of the above

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What is the best way to combine these sentences?
The girl was little.
She pressed her nose against the window.
The window was icy.
She giggled with delight.
She had never seen snow before.

• The girl was little as she pressed her nose against the icy window, and giggled with delight because she had never seen snow before.
• The little girl pressed her nose against the icy window and giggled with delight because she had never seen snow before.
• Because the little girl pressed her nose against the icy window, she giggled with delight at the never-before seen snow.
• Because, the little girl pressed her nose against the icy window, she giggled with delight at the never-before seen snow.

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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 below statements best summarizes the passage?

April's parents were dog breeders and their kennels were often filled with a litter of puppies. April helped care for the dogs by bathing them and giving them the best food and water.

April's class had also been learning how to care for animals in their science lessons, so she was thrilled when her teacher announced a field trip to an animal shelter. The shelter manager, Rachel, led the class into the kennel area where dogs and cats sat along opposite walls of the building. April was stunned by what she saw. Some dogs looked like they had been starved before coming to the shelter.

"What happened to these dogs?" April asked.

"These dogs are here because their owners did not care for them properly," Rachel replied. "We try to keep the animals healthy so they can go to good homes. If you know someone who wants to adopt a pet, please tell them about our shelter."

April decided to take action and she printed flyers with information about the shelter. April's parents handed them out to people who bought their puppies. The following day April received permission to post a flyer at her school. That afternoon, April received a phone call at home.

"Hi, April, this is Rachel. I wanted to thank you for creating flyers for the shelter. Our adoptions have already started to increase!"

"You're welcome! I just wanted to help rescue the puppies."

• After a field trip to the animal shelter, April makes flyers to increase animal adoption because she cares about animals.

• April's class takes a field trip to an animal shelter, and April learns how to take care of animals with the rest of her class.

• The local animal shelter manager tells April that animals come to the shelter because their owners do not care for them.

• April's parents have too many dogs to care for, and April works to keep their dogs from being taken to an animal shelter.

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Which statement best summarizes Chapter Three?

• A series of errors causes the plane to drop too quickly so that it crashes through trees before it slams into a lake.

• A series of errors causes the plane to drop too quickly so that it crashes through trees before it slams into a lake. Brian frees himself from the submerging plane and pulls himself out through the shattered front window. A screaming Brian struggles through the water to shore.

• A series of errors causes the plane to drop too quickly so that it crashes through trees before it slams into a lake. Not only does Brian not know his original course, he has no idea how much the plane has gone off course.

• A series of errors causes the plane to drop too quickly so that it crashes through trees before it slams into a lake. Mentally Brian practices his plan for bringing the plane down when it runs out of gas by slowing it and landing in a lake. As Brian is trying to make contact by radio, the plane runs out of gas.

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