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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

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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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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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The first book Chris read in fifth grade was about a lost kitten. Then he read a book about a family of bears, and then he read about a wild kangaroo in Australia. It seems every book Chris reads is about animals. Last week he found a good book about snakes and reptiles, and another book about elephants. Today Chris went to the library, and he checked out a book about dolphins, whales and other animals that live in the sea.
The Summary of this passage is:

• Chris likes kangaroos.
• Chris is in the fifth grade.
• Chris reads a lot of books about animals.
• Dolphins and whales live in the sea.

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Is it an ant, you wonder, or a termite? Ants resemble termites, but they are quite different and can be easily distinguished. In contrast to termites, ants are usually dark in color, are hard bodied, and have constriction between the thorax and abdomen. Termites are light in color and shed their wings. Flying ants do not shed their wings. Also, ants and termites belong to different orders.
Select the best summary of this paragraph.

• Termites are lighter in color and loose their wings at a certain stage of development.
• Ants are dark in color, hard bodied and belong to a different order than termites.
• Ants and termites are both insects and have many things in common
• Although ants resemble termites, they have differences that can be easily seen.

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Everyone knows that thousands of athletes compete in the Olympic Games and that hundreds of thousands of visitors attend.  But did you know that about 60,000 more people work to make the Olympics run smoothly?  Some of these workers are paid, but thousands of others are volunteers.  All of them have to be trained for their job.  These workers do everything from sweeping up litter to escorting competitiors to selling tickets to announcing winners. Which title best summarizes this paragraph?

• How Athletes Compete at the Games
• Working as a Ticket Seller
• Tips for Visitors to the Olympics
• Workers Behind the Olympics

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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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What can you summarize?

• only novels
  
• only nonfiction
  
• only movies
  
• anything you read or watch

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Choose the sentence that BEST paraphrases this sentence:

A high school student usually has summer reading assignments.

• A high school student always has homework assignments in the summer.
• It is common for students in high school to have summer reading assignments.
• Usually school aged students have summer reading assignments.
• Most summer school students have high school reading to do.

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Turn over a bag of potato chips. Is the label interesting? A simple food recipe may use several ingredients. These come from the soil and from chemistry labs around the world. Surprises also show up in the labels on clothing and other products. Look at the label on a package of lipstick. The tube seems small and shiny, but inside lipstick there is soap, oil, fish scales, and wax!

Which is the best way to summarize this passage?

• A bag of potato chips seems like a simple recipe. There are many ingredients from the soil and from chemistry labs.

• Clothes and other products have many ingredients as well. Lipstick alone has soap, oil, wax, and fish scales.

• Labels show what goes into food, clothing, and other products. A simple product may have many ingredients.

• Lipstick seems small and shiny. Look at the label sometime. It has at least four different ingredients.

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