Summarizing a Fiction Story

A summary is a retelling of the whole story in my own words.

• True

• False

A summary should not include the main character of the story.

• True

• False

An easy way to remember summary for fiction is...

• Someone, Wanted, But, So, Then

• Somebody, Went, But, Somehow, Those

• Someone, Wanted, Then, End

• So, Wanted, But, Then

Which of the following is true about SUMMARIZING?

• A summary should include many story details.

• A summary is always found in the first sentence of a paragraph or chapter.

• A summary should always be fiction.

• A summary is what the passage is mostly about.

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 (SWBST)

What is the difference between retelling and summarizing?

• A summary is a long detailed paragraph and a retell is not.

• Retell is telling about all the events, while a summary only talks about main ideas.

• Retelling and summarizing are the same thing.

• Retelling is a word used for little kids and summarizing is used for big kids.

In SWBST what does the first S stand for?

• Someone

• Wanted

• But

• So

• Then

In SWBST what does the W stand for?

• Who

• Wanted

• Where

• When

• Why

In SWBST what does the B stand for?

• Somebody

• Wanted

• But

• The conflict

• Then

In SWBST what does the second S stand for?

• Somebody

• Wanted

• But

• So

• Then