Retelling, Paraphrase, Summarize Logical Order Tek

When summarizing a story you must include...

• Everything that happened

• The most important 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.

telling the story again is

• a summary

• retelling

Using the author's word is a characteristic of

• Retelling

• Summary

• BOTH

Putting the events in your own words is a characteristic of

• retelling

• summary

• BOTH

keeping the big idea in mind is important when

• retelling

• summarizing

• both

you should add as many details as possible when

• retelling

• summarizing

• BOTH

only use details from the text when

• retelling

• summarizing

• BOTH

You should keep the details in the correct order when

• retelling

• summarizing

• BOTH