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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

What is a summary?

• a short explanation of a text

• a persuasive argument about a text

• a movie based off of a book

• a theme or universal lesson

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

What is the first step to summarizing a passage?

• Carefully reading through and understanding the passage so you can make a better summary.

• Put the first important thing you see down without even reading the passage.