WorksheetsParaphrase and Summary Practice
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 15mins
_____ is shorter than the original text.
A paraphrase
A summary
Choose the best paraphrase.
Cannon Beach is visited by thousands of tourists every year.
Cannon Beach is seen by thousands of tourists every year.
Thousands of tourists visit Oregon every year.
Each year, many people visit Cannon Beach.
Yearly people travel to Cannon Beach for work.
Choose the best paraphrase.
Giraffes like Acacia leaves and hay, and they can consume 75 pounds of food a day.
Giraffes eat a lot of food each day.
A giraffe's legs are taller than most humans.
Giraffes are interesting creatures with a diet of Acacia leaves and hay.
A giraffe can eat up to 75 pounds of Acacia leaves and hay daily.
Choose the best paraphrase.
Symptoms of influenza include fever and nasal congestion.
A stuffy nose and elevated temperature are signs you may have the flu.
Symptoms of the flu are fever and nasal congestion.
Side effects of the flue are fever and nasal congestion.
Symptoms of influenza include fever and a stuffy nose.
Choose the best paraphrase.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said we remember the silence of our friends more than the words of our enemies.
Lack of support from friends impacts us more than our enemies' words.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a famous orator who expressed many important ideas.
One of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous quotes is about how lack of support from friends impacts us more than our enemies' words.
When you take a piece of information from an article or reading passage and putting it in your own words, you are creating a
Summary
Signal Phrase
Paraphrase
The underlined part of the sentences is the following:
The Grand Canyon is beautiful and majestic. It attracts thousands of people each year (Stevens).
Direct Quote
Common Knowledge
Paraphrase
When you restate the beginning, middle, and end of an article or reading passage, you are creating a
Summary
Paraphrase
In-Text Citation
a shortened retelling of the important parts of a text or story
Review
Paraphrase
Summary
There is no correct answer
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.
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.
Paraphrase and Summary Practice
A paraphrase
A summary
A direct quote
An analysis
Choose the best paraphrase. 'The sun sets in the west, painting the sky with hues of orange and pink.'
The sun goes down in the west, coloring the sky with shades of orange and pink.
The sun rises in the east, creating a colorful sky.
The sun sets in the west, making the sky dark.
The sun sets, and the sky turns blue.
Which of the following is a characteristic of a good summary?
It includes every detail from the original text.
It is longer than the original text.
It captures the main ideas in a concise manner.
It uses complex vocabulary to enhance understanding.
