WorksheetsSummarizing
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
When summarizing a story, you must include...
Everything that happened
An inference
The most significant information
My background knowledge
Summaries help me...
understand what I'm reading
identify the main points of a text
write about what I read
all of these
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.
Which of the following statements about summarizing is false?
The summary is what the passage is mostly about.
The summary is usually found in more than just one sentence of the passage.
The summary is what all of most of the sentences or paragraphs are about.
The summary is one isolated thought in a passage.
A summary should be written in your own words.
True
False
You should only include the main events or ideas from the passage when writing a summary.
True
False
A summary does what?
Nothing.
Makes an educated guess
Tells an opinion
Explains a text with important information and key points.
Which of the follow is NOT something you should include in a summary?
Your own words
Exact words from the text
Less information than is in the original text
Main ideas (only!)
Which best describes a summary?
A really long detailed piece of writing.
A single sentence.
A useless thing that teachers make you write.
The main ideas and important details of a text.
When summarizing, you should never include...
Central ideas
Important supporting details that go with the central ideas
Your opinion
The title, author, and type of text.
Read the following example and decide if it is a successful summary or not:
The book is about a Diné girl.
Yes, this is a good summary! 😊
No, this is not a good summary. 😦
Read the following example and decide if it is a successful summary or not:
The story is about his experiences during quarantine.
Yes, this is a good summary! 😊
No, this is not a good summary. 😦
Read the following example and decide if it is a successful summary or not:
In The Lion King, lion cub Simba witnesses his father's sudden death caused by his evil uncle, Scar. Simba escapes and returns later as an adult to take back his homeland from Scar with the help of his friends Timón and Púmbaa.
Yes, this is a good summary! 😊
No, this is not a good summary. 😦
Read the following example and decide if it is a successful summary or not:
F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel, The Great Gatsby, follows Jay Gatsby, a man who orders his life around one desire: to be reunited with Daisy Buchanan, the love he lost five years earlier. Gatsby's quest leads him from poverty to wealth, into the arms of his beloved, and eventually to death.
Yes, this is a good summary! 😊
No, this is not a good summary. 😦
Read the following example and decide if it is a successful summary or not:
In the Pixar film Inside Out, the main character is a girl named Riley. She loves to play hockey and hang out with her friends in her hometown and is very happy. But then she finds out that she is going to have to move and she becomes very depressed. Her parents fight all the time, and she embarrassed herself on her first day of school by crying. She doesn't even love to play hockey anymore.
Yes, this is a good summary! 😊
No, this is not a good summary. 😦
