Summarizing

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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 short explanation of a text

a persuasive argument about a text

a movie based off of a book

a theme or universal lesson

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

in your own words with complete sentences

in a secret language that you make up

in one draft without revising

in fragments without punctuation

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.