Reading Skills Summarizing

This is the very purpose of summarizing.

• To retell a story

• To reduce information to essential ideas

• To get through an article more quickly

• To get through an article more quickly

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

We want to _____ unimportant information, when summarizing a text

• summarize

• highlight

• disregard

• include

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RI.8.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

It gives the reader an idea about what the paragraph is going to be about.

• Concluding sentence

• Topic sentence

• Summary

• Body

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

Who, What, When, Where, Why, How are basic signal words.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

Somebody, Wanted, Because, So, Then is an excellent summarizing strategy for stories where each word represents a key question related to the story’s essential elements.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2

SAAC Method requires the name of texts' authors.

• True

• False

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.2

CCSS.RI.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.11-12.2

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.9-10.2