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Summarizing

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 1hrs 16mins

Name

Class

Date

A summary is a retelling of the whole story in my own words.

True

False

A summary should not include the main character of the story.

True

False

An easy way to remember summary for fiction is...

Someone, Wanted, But, So, Then

Somebody, Went, But, Somehow, Those

Someone, Wanted, Then, End

So, Wanted, But, Then

Which of the following 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 a summary?

a really long detailed piece of writing

the entire text told in your own words

a dumb thing that teachers make you write

the main ideas and important details of a text (SWBST)

What is the difference between retelling and summarizing?

A summary is a long detailed paragraph and a retell is not.

Retell is telling about all the events, while a summary only talks about main ideas.

Retelling and summarizing are the same thing.

Retelling is a word used for little kids and summarizing is used for big kids.

In SWBST what does the first S stand for?

Someone

Wanted

But

Then

In SWBST what does the W stand for?

Who

Wanted

Where

When

Why

In SWBST what does the B stand for?

Somebody

Wanted

But

The conflict

Then

10.

In SWBST what does the second S stand for?

Somebody

Wanted

But

Then

11.

In SWBST what does the T stand for?

Somebody

Wanted

But

Then

Too much

12.

A Fiction Summary is always the shortest answer.

True

False

13.

When a question says "Which summary is the best," that means I should chose the one that comes closest to being perfect.

true

false

Sometimes

14.

In a Summary I should include as many details as possible.

False

True

15.

When some people think about Texas, they think of cowboys on the open range-herding cattle up a dusty trail. However, Texas has much more than open prairie with large herds of cows. There are the mountains of West Texas, the piney hills of east Texas, and the emerald waters off the coast of Padre Island. Texas also has large coastal harbors with numerous sailboats, powerboats, inland lakes, rivers, swamps of southeast Texas with alligators and other exotic wildlife.
The Summary of this passage is:

There are a lot of cows in Texas.

There are many different, varied parts of Texas.

Texas is one of the biggest states in the United States.

There are alligators in the swampland of southeast Texas.

16.

Tomorrow is Jill's birthday. She is excited because she gets to pick where she will eat dinner. Will it be Mexican food at the Big Enchilada House? Or will it be fried chicken at the Chicken Shack, or a big cheeseburger at Al's Hamburger Palace. She just couldn't decide. Then there was always the Pizza Shop with that great pepperoni pizza. How would she ever decide? Maybe she would just flip a coin.
The Summary of this passage is:

Jill has many restaurants to choose from for her birthday.

Jill loves Mexican food.

The Pizza Shop has the best pizza in town.

Jill will choose a place by flipping a coin.

17.

It started when they got to the bears. Peter felt tired and his stomach hurt. He dragged himself over to see the elephants, which were eating from a stack of hay. Normally, the elephants were his favorite. Without much interest, Peter followed his classmates to the camels, which were busy swatting flies with their tails. Peter knew he should be having fun at the zoo, but he just felt terrible and all he wanted to do was lie down and rest. Even the lions and tigers did not interest him now.
The Summary of this passage is:

Peter's favorite animals were the elephants.

The camels were swatting flies with their tails.

It was really hot at the zoo.

Peter didn't enjoy the zoo because he felt really bad.

18.

Right now Jason was playing right field. He really wanted to play third base. Earlier this year, coach had put him in left field and second base in a game, but never at third base. Once in practice, coach let him play third base, but he kept missing ground balls. When he did stop one, he made a bad throw to first base. Maybe if he kept practicing, Jason would be good enough to play third base. That was his dream.
The Summary of this passage is:

Jason really wanted to play third base.

Jason was the best player on his team.

Jason had trouble catching ground balls.

Jason was too lazy to practice.

19.

Read the following passage and then answer the question.
Books lay in the middle of his floor. Several broken toys were shoved halfway under the bed, and dirty clothes were everywhere. Frank's parents kept telling him to clean his room, but it never seemed to get clean. In fact, if Frank did manage to clean part of it, the rest of the room just got messier. In one corner of the room was an old peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and an open bag of potato chips was thrown on the dresser.

Frank's room was a mess.

A peanut butter and jelly sandwich was in one corner of the room.

Frank liked potato chips.

Frank got in big trouble because his room was not clean.

20.

Read the following passage and then answer the question.
Jose carefully poured out the bag of marbles on his bed. He picked his ten favorite marbles and carefully set them to the side. Then he got out a small bag from his top drawer, and put the ten marbles inside. Just to make sure he wouldn't forget them, he placed the bag of marbles in his backpack. Jose loved show and tell, and he was excited that he would get to show his class some of his favorite marbles.

Jose had lots of marbles.

Jose was getting his favorite marbles ready to take to school for show and tell.

Jose would rather play marbles than play baseball.

Jose placed the bag of marbles in his backpack.

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Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 1hrs 16mins

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