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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is a summary?
a short explanation of a text
a persuasive argument about a text
a movie based off of a book
a theme or universal lesson
- 2. Multiple Choice
When would you most likely summarize a book?
when you want to forget a book you’ve read
when you want to tell a friend your opinion of a book but not what it was about
when you want to tell a friend the gist or main ideas of a book
when you don’t understand a vocabulary word you read in a book
- 3. Multiple Choice
A non-fictional summary should
focus on the assigned topic.
include personal opinion.
not be paraphrased.
always mention the interesting facts.
- 4. Multiple Choice
When should you write a draft of your summary?
immediately after reading the text for the first time
before coding the text
before re-reading sections you didn’t understand
after you’ve read the text, coded it and re-read any sections you didn’t understand
- 5. Multiple Choice
You should write your summary
in your own words with complete sentences.
in a secret language that you make up.
in one draft without revising.
in fragments without punctuation.
- 6. Multiple Choice
What can you summarize?
only novels
only nonfiction
only movies
anything you read or watch
- 7. Multiple Choice
Read the following passage and choose the MAIN IDEA.
As soon as she arrived at grandmother's house, Jessica ran into her bedroom to look at the blue quilt. It covered her grandmother's bed and was Jessica's favorite. It had patches of dark blue, medium blue, and light blue, with pictures of birds and flowers on every other patch. Jessica liked to take naps with the quilt wrapped around her. She loved the way it felt so soft and warm against her skin. Whenever she was visiting grandma, just looking at the quilt made Jessica happy.
Jessica's grandmother has a pretty blue quilt.
Jessica loved her grandmother's quilt.
Jessica took naps at her grandmother's house.
The quilt was warm.
- 8. Multiple ChoiceWhat strategy do you use to summarize FICTION?SWBSTWWW3
- 9. Multiple ChoiceSummaries help me...understand what I'm readingwrite about what I readinclude the key points of a textall of the above
- 10. Multiple ChoiceWhat is the difference between retelling and summarizing?A summary is a long detailed paragraph and a retell is not.A 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.
- 11. Multiple Choice
Read the following passage and choose the MAIN IDEA.
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.
- 12. Multiple Choice
You should write your summary
in your own words with complete sentences
in a secret language that you make up
by copying the most important points from text
in fragments without punctuation
- 13. Multiple ChoiceIn my summary, I just summarize what the story said, and I do not give my personal opinions about what happened.TrueFalse
- 14. Multiple ChoiceWhen writing a summary for a INFORMATIONAL text, what is a good thing to consider?characterssolutiondetails and factsconflict
- 15. Multiple Choice
When do you use Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then?
Poetry
Informational Passages
Biographies
Long, complicated fiction stories
- 16. Multiple Choice
Paraphrasing means
replacing phrases with sentences
changing the word order in the sentence
replacing the words with antonyms
retelling something in your own words
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