Summarization

Which one of the following is NOT a part of a summary?

• using your own words
• summary being shorter than the text
• exact words from the text
• including main ideas only

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

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.

Read the following passage and then choose the most accurate one sentence summary.

Lisa knew all of the seven dwarfs except one. She remembered Grumpy, Sleepy and Bashful. And of course she couldn't forget Doc and Dopey. Dopey was her favorite. But there was one she just could not remember. Let's see. There's also Sneezy, and that's six. But she could not remember that last one.

• Dopey was Lisa's favorite dwarf.

• Lisa could not remember the name of one of the dwarfs.

• There were seven dwarfs in all.

• Lisa had a good memory.

What can you summarize?

• only novels

• only nonfiction

• only movies

• anything you read, watch, or hear

You should write your summary

• in your own words with complete sentences

• by noticing repeating words, ideas, or concepts

• in one draft without revising

• in fragments without punctuation

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

When writing a summary for a LITERARY text, what is a good thing to consider?

• text features
• story elements
• topic
• details

When writing a summary for a INFORMATIONAL text, what is a good thing to consider?

• characters
• solution
• details and facts
• conflict