 Objective:
By the time this lesson is finished, you'll have tools to
help you summarize a reading passage. In this lesson you will:
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Review the meaning of a summary,
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Identify statements summarizing reading
passages,
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Practice writing statements to summarize
reading passages,
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Score and evaluate
your answers.
These words will be used in this lesson. They might be
quite familiar to you, or you might want some review. For
review, just click the Helpful Tools button and open
Vocabulary.
What is a summary?
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states the main ideas of a text
passage.
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is clear and concise (brief).
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focuses only on information (main
ideas) from the text.
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usually follows the sequence of events
in the text.
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does not include opinions of the
reader; it avoids interpretation or judgement. Just
the facts will do!
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is written in the writer's own words.
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What is NOT included in a summary?
What is important in a summary?
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The main skill in summarizing is to figure out
what is important or essential
in the passage.
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How do I figure out what the author thinks
is important?
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Most authors
have ways to signal important ideas. Here are some:
- introductory
statements
- topic sentences
- summary statements at the end of
the article or story
- underlining
- italics
- repetition
- use of examples
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In the next section, you'll see some examples
of how the Tips and Tools just reviewed work to help
find identify or explain a summary for a narrative passage.
Example
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