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What is a summary?
the plot elements
to use descriptive language to describe a moment
what the characters say to each other
retelling of a story while focusing on the main idea
What information should go in your summary?
small details
the most important information
your opinion
a list of characters
"Paraphrasing" is...?
retelling the story in your own words
explaining plot elements
using descriptive language to focus on a moment
retelling the story while focusing on the main idea
The summary is often confused with...?
characterization
paraphrasing
dialogue
focus
True or False? You should be able to understand what a story is about when you read the summary.
True
False
There are many different types of frogs, but the most poisonous frog is the poison dart frog. The name for these tiny amphibians dates back many decades. The poison of these frogs was historically used on darts. A dart that was dipped in this poison would poison the blood stream of any human who was attacked by one. One poison dart frog has more than enough poison under its skin to kill more than 8 grown humans.
What is the best summary of the selection?
Poison dart frogs have a lot of poison. They can kill more than 8 grown humans.
Darts were created because of the poison dart frog. The poison would kill a person if the poison entered their bloodstream.
The poison dart frog is the most poisonous frog.Their poison used to be used on darts to attack humans. While these frogs may be tiny, their poison is very strong.
There are a lot of frogs in the world. The smallest one if the poison dart frog.
Cheetahs are the fastest big cat in the world. They can run up 70 miles per hour- speeds that are equivalent to the speed limit on a highway. One of the main reasons a cheetah can run so fast is because of its build. The cheetah is very slender, light, has long legs, and a long tail. This allows aerodynamics to works in its favor. Speed is also what keeps the cheetah out of danger when being attacked as prey.
What is the best summary of the selection?
Cheetahs escape their predators by running quickly. Their legs and tails help them run faster.
Cheetahs are the fastest animal in the world. They can travel up to highways speeds. Their slender build allows them to run quickly and escape predators that may be after them.
Cheetahs can travel as fast as cars on the highway. That speed is up to 70 miles per hour!
Cheetahs are a big cat that can run really fast. Out of all of the big cats you can think of, cheetahs are the fastest. You could never outrun a cheetah.
Squids are one of the oceans coolest creatures. They protect themselves in a very unique way. Rather than using venom, teeth, or strength, squids use black ink. When this creature feels as if it is being threatened by predator, it simply releases this ink. The ink makes the water around it cloudy and dark. The murky water allows the squid to escape its predator by using their arms and siphon to propel itself.
What is the best summary of the selection?
Squids are unique by the way they protect themselves from predators. They use black ink that makes the water cloudy and hard to see. While the water is cloudy, the squid swims away.
Squids do not use venom or teeth to escape their predators. They use black ink.
Squids are the coolest ocean animal. Unlike most other ocean animals, these creatures use a different method of escaping their predators.
When a quid feels threatened, they let out dark stuff that helps hide them. When they are hidden, they cannot be eaten by their predators.
Stink bugs are exactly what they sound like- bugs that stink. However, their stench is only released when it feels threatened or when it is stepped on. The smell that is released from the bug puts up a great defense against predators. The smell makes any potential predator turn away. Along with its smell, it also tastes terrible. If it does end up in the mouth of a predator, they quickly learn that they should not consume them.
What is the best summary of the selection?
Stink bugs use their stench for protection. They only smell when threatened or stepped on. The smell makes a predator turn the other way. Along with their smell, they also taste bad which makes predators leave them alone as well.
Stink bugs taste terrible. If another insect or animal tries to eat the smelly stink bug, it will quickly learn that it was a bad idea and spit it out.
Stink bugs got their name from the way they smell. When stepped on or threatened, it lets out a cloud of stench. That is why they are called a stink bug.
Stink bugs are not dangerous to humans, but they can be dangerous to the human nose. If you do not like smelly bugs, then you should most certainly stay away from the stink bugs around you.
While all elephants have the same distinct features, there are some characteristics that differ between the Asian and African elephant. For example, on African Elephants, both male and females have tusks. On the Asian Elephant, only the males have tusks. Another unique difference is the size of their ears. African Elephants have huge ears, and Asians Elephants have ears that are a little bit smaller. Lastly, the African Elephant can grow up to 13 feet tall while the Asian Elephant typically only grows up to 9 feet tall.
What is the best summary of the selection?
African Elephants are much larger than Asian Elephants. African Elephants can grow to be 13 feet tall. Asian Elephants can only grow to be 9 feet tall.
Not all elephants are the same. Even though elephants all look alike, they can be very different. Things that are different include their size and weight.
Elephants may all look alike, but there are some differences between the African and Asian Elephant. One of those differences are which elephants have tusks. On an African Elephant, the male and females have tusks. On an Asian Elephant, only the male elephant has tusks.
Elephants all have the same distinct features, but there are really several differences between the African and Asian Elephants. The differences include characteristics like which elephants have tusks, how big their ears are and how tall they can grow.
Two majestic sea creatures that swim gracefully in the ocean are the manta rays and the stingrays. Both of these creatures have a flat, triangular like body with a long thin tail. They are both also classified as cartilage fish. Even though they may look alike, they are actually very different creatures. First of all, the stingray has a barb, or stinger, on the back of its tail, and the manta ray does not. Another difference is the location of their mouths. A stingray's mouth is on the underside of the body. A manta ray's mouth is on the front edge. The last and very important difference is that a stingray can be dangerous to humans while the manta ray is completely harmless.
What is the best summary of the selection?
Sting rays and manta rays look very similar. Both of these sea creatures have flat triangular like bodies. They also both have a long thin tail coming off the end of their flat body. Lastly, they are both classified as cartilage fish. This means they have a lot of fat on their bodies.
Stingrays and manta rays look very similar physically. They are actually very different creatures though. The sting ray has a stinger on its tail and the manta ray doesn't. Their mouths are also in different locations. Lastly, stingrays are dangerous to humans and manta rays are not.
Stingrays and manta rays are very different. A stingray has a barb, or stinger, on the end of its thin tail. The barb can sting humans and actually be very dangerous to them.
Stingrays and manta rays look very similar. One of the differences on them is the location of their mouths. On the stingray, the mouth is located on the underside of the body. On the manta ray, the mouth is located on the very front of the creature.
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.
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.
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.
For the walls, Jenny thought she would use a bright yellow paint. She would pick a border that had mostly bright red and green colors, and maybe a little bit of blue. She already had found some curtains that were sky blue with streaks of red, blue and yellow that she thought would go great with the walls. And finally, she had picked a carpet that was mostly blue with specks of red and yellow. Jenny couldn't wait till she was done decorating her room. It was really going to look awesome.
The Summary of this passage is:
Jenny likes bright colors.
Jenny was going to paint her room.
Jenny was picking out colors and materials to decorate her room.
Yellow is a good color to paint your walls.
Which of the below statements best summarizes the passage?
April's parents were dog breeders and their kennels were often filled with a litter of puppies. April helped care for the dogs by bathing them and giving them the best food and water.
April's class had also been learning how to care for animals in their science lessons, so she was thrilled when her teacher announced a field trip to an animal shelter. The shelter manager, Rachel, led the class into the kennel area where dogs and cats sat along opposite walls of the building. April was stunned by what she saw. Some dogs looked like they had been starved before coming to the shelter.
"What happened to these dogs?" April asked.
"These dogs are here because their owners did not care for them properly," Rachel replied. "We try to keep the animals healthy so they can go to good homes. If you know someone who wants to adopt a pet, please tell them about our shelter."
April decided to take action and she printed flyers with information about the shelter. April's parents handed them out to people who bought their puppies. The following day April received permission to post a flyer at her school. That afternoon, April received a phone call at home.
"Hi, April, this is Rachel. I wanted to thank you for creating flyers for the shelter. Our adoptions have already started to increase!"
"You're welcome! I just wanted to help rescue the puppies."
After a field trip to the animal shelter, April makes flyers to increase animal adoption because she cares about animals.
April's class takes a field trip to an animal shelter, and April learns how to take care of animals with the rest of her class.
The local animal shelter manager tells April that animals come to the shelter because their owners do not care for them.
April's parents have too many dogs to care for, and April works to keep their dogs from being taken to an animal shelter.
Turn over a bag of potato chips. Is the label interesting? A simple food recipe may use several ingredients. These come from the soil and from chemistry labs around the world. Surprises also show up in the labels on clothing and other products. Look at the label on a package of lipstick. The tube seems small and shiny, but inside lipstick there is soap, oil, fish scales, and wax!
Which is the best way to summarize this passage?
A bag of potato chips seems like a simple recipe. There are many ingredients from the soil and from chemistry labs.
Clothes and other products have many ingredients as well. Lipstick alone has soap, oil, wax, and fish scales.
Labels show what goes into food, clothing, and other products. A simple product may have many ingredients.
Lipstick seems small and shiny. Look at the label sometime. It has at least four different ingredients.
Giddy-up, cowboys and girls! In the Southwest during early half of the 1800s, cows were only worth 2 or 3 dollars a piece. They roamed wild, grazed off of the open range, and were abundant. Midway through the century though, railroads were built and the nation was connected. People could suddenly ship cows in freight trains to the Northeast, where the Yankees had a growing taste for beef. Out of the blue, the same cows that were once worth a couple of bucks were now worth between twenty and forty dollars each, if you could get them to the train station. It became pretty lucrative to wrangle up a drove of cattle and herd them to the nearest train town, but it was at least as dangerous as it was profitable. Cowboys were threatened at every turn. They faced cattle rustlers, stampedes and extreme weather, but kept pushing those steers to the train station. By the turn of the century, barbed wire killed the open range and some may say the cowboy too, but it was the train that birthed him.
The summary of this passage is:
Cows were not worth a lot of money until they could be easily transported to the East after the invention of the train. Many people then became cowboys despite the dangers they faced.
In the Southwest during early half of the 1800s, cows were only worth 2 or 3 dollars a piece.
It became pretty lucrative to wrangle up a drove of cattle and herd them to the nearest train town, but it was at least as dangerous as it was profitable.
People could suddenly ship cows in freight trains to the Northeast, where the Yankees had a growing taste for beef. Out of the blue, the same cows that were once worth a couple of bucks were now worth between twenty and forty dollars each, if you could get them to the train station.
Read the following passage.
The article “Orange You Glad” by Wanda Biederman is all about oranges: the history, varieties and products that are made from them. Oranges are not known to grow wildly. They likely originated in Asia, either in India or in China. Spanish travelers brought the fruit to the Americas in the 1500s. There are bitter oranges and sweet oranges. I like to use bitter oranges to make jelly. Orange juice is made from oranges, and orange oil, which is used to flavor foods, is made of sweet oranges. Oranges are packed with vitamin C, a fact that historically made them a popular food among sailors. Vitamin C helps heal wounds and repair bones. The article concludes with the idea that people should eat an orange, and not an apple, every day.
Which of the following details from the passage does not belong in the summary?
True or False: In a summary you should include all of the main details from the text.
True
False
The Blackpole Warbler is a tiny bird that takes a really long trip. This little songbird lives in the forests of North America in the summer. However, when the weather turns cold in North America, the Blackpole Warbler takes flight.These small birds fly all the way to the Caribbean, where they spend the winter on warm tropical beaches. How far does the warbler fly for this tropical getaway? Scientists have tracked the Blackpole Warbler and say these amazing birds can fly over 1,700 miles!
Which is the best summary of this text?
The blackpole warbler is a small bird. It is also asongbird. It can fly.
The blackpole warbler is a small songbird that can flyover 1,700 miles.
The blackpole warbler is a small songbird that flies fromNorth America all the way to the Caribbean. The bird fliesover 1,700 miles.
Birds often migrate to warmer places in the winter.
A summary is ________________.
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Rosa Parks has been called the "mother of the civil rights movement." She is one of the most important people of the 20th century. In December of 1955, she refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger. The bus driver had her arrested. She was sent to court. She was found guilty of breaking the law.
Her act sparked a boycott of the bus system by blacks. Blacks refused to use the buses for more than a year. The boycott introduced the country to a man named Martin Luther King, Jr. People all over the country came to know King. Soon, the U.S. Supreme Court made segregation on city buses against the law.
Over the next forty years, Rosa Parks helped make Americans aware of the history of the civil rights struggle. She earned many honors, including the Martin Luther King Jr. Nonviolent Peace Prize. She is an example of courage and strength. She inspires all Americans to live free.
The summary of this passage is:
Rosa Parks was arrested for not giving up her seat on a bus to a white passenger. Then, the buses were boycotted, and Martin Luther King, Jr., became very well known. He had a prize named after him.
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a bus. The bus driver had her arrested, and then she was found guilty of breaking the law. She was important to American history.
Rosa Parks boycotted the bus system. This boycott brought Martin Luther King, Jr., to the front of the civil rights movement. People all over the country got to know Martin Luther King, Jr.
Rosa Parks was an important person of the 20th century. She refused to give up her seat on a bus, which led to a boycott of the bus system. She earned many honors for her work in the civil rights movement.
