Identifying the Best Summary

When summarizing a story you must include...

• Everything that happened
• The most significant information
• An Inference
• My background knowledge

Summaries help me...

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

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.

The 'who/subject' is....

• the person or thing a text or article is about
• The date the article is happening
• where the stuff takes place
• What happens in the article or text

The 'Where' is...

• the time the action takes place
• what the who/subject does
• the place the action in the text takes place or the setting
• just a place

The 'When' is...

• when the article or text is published or put online
• not important
• the time when the action is taking place

The 'Why' is...

• not important
• the reason the action takes place or motivation for Who/Subject to do something
• the question presented in the text
• what the who is asking

Which of the following statements about SUMMARIZING is false?

•  The Summary is what the passage is mostly about.
• The Summary is what all or most of the sentences or paragraphs are about.
• The Summary is usually found in more than just one sentence of the passage
• The Summary is one isolated thought in a passage.

A summary should be written in your own words.

• True

• False

You should only include the main events or ideas from the passage when writing a summary.

• True

• False