I. TRUE or FALSE

Summarizing is a retelling in your own words, a short version of the main ideas, events and details.

A summary is a brief, clear restatement of the most important points of a paragraph or passage.

You should NOT include key details when you are retelling a story.

Summarizing can be best described as taking the passage and listing briefly the most important points in your own words.

The terms, "retell" and "summarize" are synonyms of each other. In other words, they mean the same thing.