Objective Summary Informational Text

Objective means:

• giving your opinions

• not using your own biases or opinions

• telling a story

• writing a how to article

An objective summary

• tells a story, is three paragraphs in length, written in your own words.

• is a narrative essay

• focuses on the central ideas, is short, written in your own words, omits minor details

A ____________ is something that can be proven true.

• opinion

• objective

• fact

To summarize ask yourself:

• who, what, where, when, why and how something happened and what was the outcome

• did this really happen

• how do I write my summary

Name it

• use a verb like shows, describes, teaches, discusses

• Identify title and author

• identify main idea

Verb it

• identify title and author

• use a verb like shows, describes, explains, discusses

• identify main idea

After you identify the main idea you-

• verb it

• name it

• write the major details to support it

Identify the "Verb it" part in the paragraph below:

The article “Take a Stand” by Jean Lewis describes Rosa Park’s feelings on the day that she was arrested. When Rosa refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man, she was arrested. Neither old nor tired as some assume, forty-two year old Rosa was simply fed up with the way she had been treated.

• The article "Take a Stand" by Jean Lewis

• Rosa Park's feelings on the day that she was arrested

• describes

Tags

CCSS.L.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

Identify the "Central Idea" part in the paragraph below:

The article “Take a Stand” by Jean Lewis describes Rosa Park’s feelings on the day that she was arrested. When Rosa refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man, she was arrested. Neither old nor tired as some assume, forty-two year old Rosa was simply fed up with the way she had been treated.

• The article "Take a Stand" by Jean Lewis

• Rosa Park's feelings on the day that she was arrested

• describes

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.2

Identify the "Name It" part in the paragraph below:

The article “Take a Stand” by Jean Lewis describes Rosa Park’s feelings on the day that she was arrested. When Rosa refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white man, she was arrested. Neither old nor tired as some assume, forty-two year old Rosa was simply fed up with the way she had been treated.

• The article "Take a Stand" by Jean Lewis

• Rosa Park's feelings on the day that she was arrested

• describes