Writing Summaries

Should you include this sentence in an objective summary: The story starts off in France at the end of WW II.

• Yes

• No

How many quotes from the text can I put in an objective summary?

• NONE.

• Only one or two of the best ones!

• Your objective summary can just be a small section of the actual text, word for word.

• You should have a few because you're writing about the text, so you need evidence.

What does a summary do?

• Tell everything that happened in the text

• Explains an educated guess about what the text might be about

• States an opinion about the text

• Tells about the important information or key points in a succinct way.

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

• characters

• solution

• details and facts

• conflict

TRUE OR FALSE: Summaries include outside information from sources other than the text.

• True

• False

TRUE OR FALSE: Nonfiction summaries should be written in objective voice, using important details and not opinions.

• True

• False

TRUE OR FALSE: Nonfiction summaries connect the main ideas or key ideas that were written in the text

• True

• False

TRUE OR FALSE: Nonfiction summaries should have exact quotes, word for word, from the text

• True

• False

TRUE OR FALSE: Nonfiction summaries should include supporting details from the text that support the main idea.

• True

• False

Summaries help me...

• Understand what I'm reading

• Include the key points of a text

• Write about what I read

• All of the Above