Informational Text Summary

Identify the "Central Idea" part in the paragraph below:

The article “Take a Stand” by Jean Lewis describes Rosa Park’s feelings on the day that she was arrested. When Rosa refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man, she was arrested. Neither old nor tired as some assume, forty-two year old Rosa was simply fed up with the way she had been treated.

• The article "Take a Stand" by Jean Lewis

• Rosa Park's feelings on the day that she was arrested

• describes

Summary is...

• Coming up with your own explanations for unfamiliar ideas

• Understanding the texts you read

• Saying exactly what the text says

• Restating the main points and ideas of something

What is this passage an example of?

• Summary

• Annotation

• Analysis

• Evidence

What are some things you can do to help you analyze a text?

• Read the text closely

• Reread the text multiple times

• Annotate the text

• Attempt to summarize the text

Which of the following statements 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 what a summary is?

• The main or most important idea of the text

• A really long detailed piece of writing

• A dumb thing teachers make you write

• The entire text in your own words

A summary is...

• A list of key details in the text that are placed in the correct order.

• A short paragraph in a fictional story that reveals the big idea, lesson, or moral.

• A short paragraph that you create which includes the main idea of the text and some key important details.

• A short paragraph that you find in the text which includes the main idea and some key details.

When would you most likely summarize a book?

• when you want to forget a book you've read

• when you want to tell a friend your opinion of a book but not what it was about

• when you want to tell a friend the gist or main ideas of a book

• when you don't understand a vocabulary word you read in a book

A summary should

• answer the 5 W's: who, what, when, where, and why

• describe the details but not the main ideas

• never mention the plot of the text

• always mention the age of the author

You should write your summary

• in your own words with complete sentences

• in a secret language that you make up

• in one draft without revising

• in fragments without punctuation